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2020年12月5日 · Is it completely disregarded, or are there more modern improvements that make this theory useful? I ask as a complete stranger to linguistics. A different but closely related question: In glottochronology, starting with Swadesh's lists, as far as I know, all that is taken into account are the proportion of cognates.
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2020年6月23日 · Advances in glottochronology I have read some old works on lexicostatistics and glottochronology, like Swadesh's original articles or this work, where using Swadesh's basic assumptions the author obtains a temporal estimation for ...
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2023年12月26日 · What are the slowest changing languages (as measured by, e.g., a "glottochronological constant" or other methods)?
How much time does it take to create/fork a new language?
Glottochronology as originally conceived by Morris Swadesh is one approach that tries to answer this question in a specific area. It's very controversial, but a lot of research in this area is built on variants of Swadesh's idea, sometimes in an evolutionary biological or computational context.
Validity of aging estimation for Proto-Afro-Asiatic
2021年6月13日 · I happen to be a skeptic of glottochronology in general; among other things, it tends to overestimate time depths in cases where vocabulary replacement takes place more rapidly and affects more supposedly 'stable' lexical elements due to periods of intensive interlanguage contact and/or multilingualism (Young Dyirbal being the most infamous ...
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2024年7月27日 · Alright, I found an answer in Bakró-Nagy, Marianne, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik (eds), The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages (Oxford, 2022), specifically the chapter about Proto-Uralic (p. 57-58).
How is the rate of evolution of a language measured?
2018年12月20日 · Robert B. Lees, “The Basis of Glottochronology,” Language 29, no. 2 (1953): 113–27. Abstract: It is shown that a linguistic dating system can be set up on the basis of several explicit assumptions about morpheme decay.
Is the rate of vocabulary change more or less constant?
2012年7月4日 · Glottochronology has a bad name in linguistics for exactly this reason: the assumption of constant rates of change made by glottochronology is clearly shown to be wrong when the methods are tried out on languages with known histories.
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Quantification of rate of sound change in multiple languages
2020年6月28日 · Look up "Glottochronology". But as far as I know, only word replacement rates are used in glottochronology and not sound change rates. Perhaps, because it is easier to track word replacement historically than sound change, historical phonology is difficult even for well-documented ancient languages. –