a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language
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lexicostatistics::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of lexicostatistics
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However, lexicostatistics does not rely on all the decisions being correct.
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It has been used in lexicostatistics by linguists such as Sergei Starostin.
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Lexicostatistics has been used in defense of the traditional family tree.
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A leading exponent of lexicostatistics application has been Isidore Dyen.
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He used lexicostatistics to classify Austronesian languages as well as Indo-European ones.
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Most internal Mande classifications are based on lexicostatistics, and the results are unreliable.
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Lexicostatistics is related to the comparative method but does not reconstruct a proto-language.
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Lexicostatistics is an approach to comparative linguistics that involves quantitative comparison of lexical cognates.
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Lexicostatistics was developed by Morris Swadesh in a series of articles in the 1950s, based on earlier ideas.
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- A statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language
- Lexicostatistics is an approach to comparative linguistics that involves quantitative comparison of lexical cognates. Lexicostatistics is related to the comparative method but does not reconstruct a proto-language. ...
- Statistical estimation of the degree of linguistic divergence between two languages, based on the proportion of cognates
- (method of measuring language relatedness quantitatively by comparing vocabulary)
