Re: [tied] Re: Reconstructing a future language

Hi Piotr,

Do you think this reference might help here:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad4.html

Cheers, Juha













--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 12:20 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Reconstructing a future language
>
>
> > I think you're making unwarranted assumptions
> about the metric they used (but you might of course
> be right). I'll get back with the
> > reference tomorrow, so you can see for yourself.
>
> Judging from the effects you have reported, I
> suppose it's either the experiment described and
> duiscussed by April McMahon, Marisa Lohr and Rober
> McMahon ("Family trees and favourite daughters") in
> Renfrew and Nettle (1999. _Nostratic: Examining a
> Linguistic Macrofamily_) or something very similar
> to it. If so, I know what to expect.
>
> Piotr
>
>

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