Lexicostatistics and Genetic Relationship

Teeter, Karl V.

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“…Despite some early cross-linguistic evidence which appeared to support a fairly constant rate of lexical replacement (Lees, 1953), Swadesh's hopes proved mis-placed. Even leaving aside the fact that the lexical stock is not the best system to reveal family relationships (Teeter, 1963) it seems that the rate is rather variable (Rea, 1958;Arndt, 1959;Fodor, 1961;Bergslund and Vogt, 1962), and so glottochronology is not widely used today. However, the assumption that the rate of change is approximately constant across all languages and all times is still frequently employed, if more tacitly, by scholars following a more orthodox approach to linguistic relatedness.…”

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Is the rate of linguistic change constant?

Nettle

1999

Lingua

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The computer simulation of language change in a finite, structured population which was presented in an earlier paper ('Using Social Impact Theory to simulate language change', Lingua 108, 95-117, 1999), is here extended to speech communities of different sizes. On the basis of the results it is proposed (a) that language change may be faster in small communities; (b) that linguistic borrowing is one sense more likely in small communities; and (c) that the evolution of linguistically marked structures is more likely in small communities. It is argued that these three generalisations could he used to make sense of the different patterns of linguistic diversity observed in the Old and New Worlds, and the distribution of marked word orders in the world's languages.

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Is the rate of linguistic change constant?

Nettle

1999

Lingua

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“…The problems of lexicostatistics have been well-rehearsed over the years and here is no place to repeat them (see amongst many others Teeter 1963). For Karnic, two criticisms are especially important.…”

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Reassessing Karnic: A Reply to Breen (2007)

Bowern

2009

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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The Karnic subgroup of Pama-Nyungan has had a complex history and despite 6 classifications there is little agreement about its internal composition beyond the lowestlevel groupings. Here I respond to Breen's (2007) criticisms of earlier classifications and discussion of subgrouping of 'border' languages such as Arabana-Wangkangurru and Garlali. I further make some methodological points regarding reconstruction and subgrouping.

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“…A more important criticism has been expounded, at great lengthp by Fodor (1965) and, more clearly, by Teeter (1963).…”

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“…Judgements about cognation are unreliable, especially with respect to languages which are separated by large t-s and whose history is mostly unknown; Fairbanks (1955), Teeter (1963), Lunt (1964). An analysis of this latter problem is beyond the scope of this study.…”

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Simulation of word-meaning stochastic processes

Sankoff

1969

Proceedings of the 1969 Conference on Computational Linguistics -

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Lexicostatistics and Genetic Relationship

Cited by 16 publications

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Is the rate of linguistic change constant?

Is the rate of linguistic change constant?

Reassessing Karnic: A Reply to Breen (2007)

Simulation of word-meaning stochastic processes

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