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glottochronology::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | chronology |
| Derivation | glottochronological |
he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages.
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Glottochronology has met with mounting scepticism, and is seldom applied today.
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Glottochronology was found to work in the case of Indo-European, accounting for 87% of the variance.
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Glottochronology has been used by some linguists to attempt to date languages by the changes in them over time.
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The performance of glottochronology in Germanic.
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He pioneered two important methods for investigating deep relationships between languages, lexicostatistics and glottochronology.
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On the validity of glottochronology.
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In the past an association with particular archaeological cultures had been assumed, then the method of glottochronology was used.
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Glottochronology is a controversial method of reconstructing in broad detail the history of a language and its relationships.
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Glottochronology, which attempts to estimate the time depth of a language family based on an assumed rate of change in languages.
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- The determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language; "he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages"
- Glottochronology is an approach in historical linguistics for estimating the time at which languages diverged, based on the assumption that the basic (core) vocabulary of a language changes at a constant average rate. ...
- A technique in linguistics used to date the amount of time elapsed since speakers of a once-common langauge separated from one another. ...
- A controversial method of assessing the temporal divergence of two languages based on changes of vocabulary (lexicostatistics), and expressed as an arithmetic formula.
