tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post7140464269375479686..comments2024-03-27T21:43:02.451-04:00Comments on NEW SAVANNA: Words that have survived 15,000 years across Europe and AsiaBill Benzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-68311316496966057972013-05-10T11:44:48.613-04:002013-05-10T11:44:48.613-04:00Further critique of the article at GeoCurrents.Further critique of the article at <a href="http://geocurrents.info/cultural-geography/linguistic-geography/do-ultraconserved-words-reveal-linguistic-macro-families" rel="nofollow">GeoCurrents</a>.Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-36538192851551622242013-05-09T06:46:16.347-04:002013-05-09T06:46:16.347-04:00Mark Liberman has serious reservations:
I'm n...Mark Liberman has serious reservations:<br /><br /><i>I'm not qualified to judge Pagel et al.'s statistics, although I remain skeptical of their basic claim that words that haven't been replaced often in a handful of language families with vastly different time depths can be predicted to be super-stable in all language families. But there are problems with their premises in this Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.com