• identified innovations to determine sub-groups, lexicostatistics does not identify these. Lexicostatistics is a distance-based method, whereas the comparative...
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  • compilation of tentatively universal concepts for the purposes of lexicostatistics. That is, a Swadesh list is a list of forms and concepts which all...
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  • Attic Greek γλῶττα tongue, language and χρόνος time) is the part of lexicostatistics which involves comparative linguistics and deals with the chronological...
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  • North America. He was one of the pioneers of glottochronology and lexicostatistics, and is known for his creation of the Swadesh list, a compilation of...
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    the lexical similarity between different languages (after computing lexicostatistics). Lattice graphs, which can model optimality theory. Formal linguistics...
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    no hoho ni tsuite ("Concerning the Method of Glottochronology and Lexicostatistics"), Gengo kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan), Vols...
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  • Language Relationship 4: 46–89. (PDF) Starostin, George. Preliminary lexicostatistics as a basis for language classification: A new approach. Journal of...
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    for use on any web site Ancient Greek basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database Ancient Greek Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words (from...
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  • vocabulary have been developed to try and overcome this limitation, such as lexicostatistics and mass comparison. The former uses lexical cognates like the comparative...
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  • soup' and 'long' in Spanish. Using a statistical approach (called lexicostatistics) by comparing each language's mass of words, distances can be calculated...
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  • comparative linguistics. Examples include the statistical fields of lexicostatistics and glottochronology, and the borrowing of phylogenetics from biology...
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    George Starostin (2015) The Eastern Sudanic hypothesis tested through lexicostatistics: current state of affairs (Draft 1.0) Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan. 1988...
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  • internal structure for the Eastern Sudanic languages. Starostin, using lexicostatistics, finds strong support for Bender's Northern branch, but none for the...
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    (2016). "Genealogical classification of New Indo-Aryan languages and lexicostatistics" (PDF). Journal of Language Relationship. 14 (4): 227–258. doi:10...
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    Greek leirion. Lexical distance of Albanian to other languages in a lexicostatistical analysis by Ukrainian linguist Tyshchenko shows the following results...
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  • list. Although he was one of the pioneers of glottochronology and lexicostatistics, his theories were often controversial, and some have been deprecated...
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  • Province, Papua New Guinea. They are mutually intelligible and 95% lexicostatistically cognate. Dialects of Kube include Kurungtufu and Yoangen (Yoanggeng)...
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    as Western Mande. Most internal Mande classifications are based on lexicostatistics, for example, that based on the Swadesh list. An alternative classification...
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  • modality in ǂKxʼaoǁʼae." Paper presented at Linguistisches Kolloquium, Berlin. ǂKxʼao-ǁʼae basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database v t e...
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  • of Borneo: A classification based on comparative reconstruction and lexicostatistics. Data Paper no. 68, Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies...
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    published, as a part of interdisciplinary study of Slavic ethnogenesis, a lexicostatistical classification of Slavic languages. It was built using qualitative...
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  • Glottochronology Grammar induction Human speechome project Internet linguistics Lexicostatistics Natural language processing Natural language user interface Quantitative...
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    . treats it as more closely related to Tsouic languages, based on lexicostatistic evidence, while Ho... believes it to be one of the Paiwanic languages...
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    Hungarian rather than Khanty has been a competing hypothesis to Ob-Ugric. Lexicostatistics has been used in defense of the traditional family tree. A recent re-evaluation...
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  • of Borneo: A classification based on comparative reconstruction and lexicostatistics. Data Paper no. 68, Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies...
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  • Phylogenetic inference of the Tibeto-Burman languages or On the usefulness of lexicostatistics (and "Megalo"-comparison) for the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman (Ph...
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  • ed., 2015) (subscription required) Blažek, Václaf. 1997. Cushitic lexicostatistics: the second attempt. Afroasiatica Neapolitana. Papers from the 8th...
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    L10n page on Xhosa Learn Xhosa Xhosa basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database Paradisec has a collections of Arthur Capell's materials...
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  • dictionary Genetic linguistics Glottochronology Historical dictionary Lexicostatistics List of ancestor languages List of languages by first written accounts...
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    "Tervuren" proposal of Bastin, Coupez, and Mann. However, it relies on lexicostatistics, which, because of its reliance on overall similarity rather than shared...
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