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lexicostatistics
has definitions from the fields of linguistics,statistics
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[ noun ] (linguistics,statistics) a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language
Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)The practical operational problem of lexicostatistics is the establishment of a basic list of items of meaning against which the particular forms or terms of languages can be matched as the medium of comparison . He has announced results on Hokan , Penutian , Uto-Aztecan , and almost all other American families and phyla , and has diagrammed their degree of interrelation ; but he has not worked_out by lexicostatistics one comprehensively complete classification of even a single family other_than Salish . But there is also a firm aspect to lexicostatistics : This involves step-by-step progress , and such will have to be the day-by-day work of lexicostatistics as a growing body of scientific inquiry . Related terms |
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