Towards greater accuracy in lexicostatistical dating

Swadesh, M. (1955). Towards greater accuracy in lexicostatistical dating.

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Unclassified

Intellectual base

Unclassified

Year

1955

DOI

10.1086/464321

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/464321

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Domain-specific

• Lexicostatistics
  • Cognacy must be established rather than inferred from surface similarity, word-list meaning and borrowing controls matter, percentage similarity does not reconstruct a proto-language and glottochronological dating adds a controversial constant-rate assumption not required by lexicostatistics.

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