Testing the predictive strength of the comparative method: an ongoing experiment on unattested words in Western Kho‐Bwa languages
Although it is well‐known to most historical linguists that the comparative method could in principle be used to predict hitherto unobserved words in genetically related languages, the task of word prediction is rarely discussed in the linguistic literature. Here, we introduce 'reflex retrodict...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Papers in Historical Phonology |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/3037 |