Re: [tied] Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved word

At 9:46:07 AM on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, S. Kalyanaraman
wrote:

> http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/05/linguists-identify-15000-year-old.html

> Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
> -- David Brown

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html?tid=ts_carousel

> Words that last

> By Wilson Andrews and David Brown, Published: May 6, 2013

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/words-that-last/

> Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry
> across Eurasia Mark Pagela,b,1, Quentin D. Atkinsonc,
> Andreea S. Caluded, and Andrew Meadea

Sally Thomason has a nice skeptical piece on this in
Language Log:

<http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4612#more-4612>

Brian