Re[2]: [tied] Grimm 's Law fact or myth: Gessman (1990)

At 4:04:12 AM on Friday, May 9, 2008, fournet.arnaud wrote:

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> One method could be to work with a one-to-one feature
> approach for example a matricial formula like P_K where P
> is any labial stop and K any velar stop, be it voiced,
> voiceless or whatever.

At this point you're already verging on Ruhlenesque
nonsense.

> That method would sort out more words than the comparative
> words does,

Of course; and most of them would be false positives.

Brian