Browsing by Author "Atkinson, Quentin D."
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Reply to Mahowald and Gibson and to Heggarty: No problems with short words, and no evidence provided
Pagel, Mark; Atkinson, Quentin D.; Calude, Andreea S.; Meade, Andrew (2013)Mahowald and Gibson (1) suggest that the shorter word length of frequently used words, and not their stability, could mean that chance sound correspondences account for the pattern of results we report for cognate relationships ... -
Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia
Pagel, Mark; Atkinson, Quentin D.; Calude, Andreea S.; Meade, Andrew (2013)The search for ever deeper relationships among the World’s languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative ...
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