From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57536
Date: 2008-04-17
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From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:50 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Untangling Our Past: Languages,
Trees, Splits and Networks
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> From: "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:44 PM
> Subject: [tied] Untangling Our Past: Languages, Trees, Splits and Networks
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> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/30800/http:zSzzSzwww.mcb.mcgill.cazSz~bryantzSzHomePagezSzPaperszSz04LanguageNets.pdf/untangling-our-past-languages.pdf
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> [Warning: this PDF is about 3.1 MB. -BMS]
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> Patrick:
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> Thank you. Very nice material again!
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I'm not so sure it's nice.
The mixture of cladistic method plus glottochronology plus standard
stammbaum is unsound.
That's cassoulet à la choucroute avec couscous garni.
Arnaud