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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=287100605-28092002>The
full reference is Proc. R.Soc. Lond. B (2002) 269, 793-799. Although 25 March is
given at the top of the paper as the date of online publication, the *issue*
date is 22 April. This may save some time in finding the
paper.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=287100605-28092002>Ross
Clark</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> terrell@fmnh.org
[mailto:terrell@fmnh.org]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, 28 September 2002 5:44
a.m.<BR><B>To:</B> AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS<BR><B>Subject:</B>
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<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Colleagues,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there anyone on this
list who has read Clare Holden’s recent paper in the Proc. Roy. Soc (25 March
2002) with whom a colleague and I may compare notes? </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are intrigued that
Holden reports using cognate sets as character states. On the face of
it, this would seem to be a strategy that falls between stools: what she
reports doing, it would seem, is neither numerical taxonomy
(lexicostatistics), nor cladistics. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Her data set is a 92
item subset of Swadesh’s famous 100-word list. Yet she reports using the
cladistics program PAUP 4.0 to analyze this data set—a program written to be
used instead on character tables, i.e., tables of derived character states
(what, in linguistics, we call shared innovations). </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Her paper shows that
one can get results of a sort using this kind of hybrid strategy (Holden
points out, in fact, that her results are strikingly similar to those obtained
by others using lexicostatistics!), but isn’t this a case of looking through a
glass darkly? </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Specifically, aren’t
results obtained using this mixed strategy going to be highly
constrained/strongly determined by the underlying distribution of shared
innovations across the particular sample of words used?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial
size=2>John </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us> </SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><A name=""><SPAN lang=en-us>John Edward
Terrell, PhD</SPAN></A></P>
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