Yeniseian and Na-Dene

[H.M.Hubey]

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Johanna Nichols wrote:
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> Neither of these procedures guarantees fair coverage of vastly different
> frequencies of different consonants, language-specific or family-specific
> preferences of different consonants or consonant classes for different
> phonotactic positions, and the like.  I hope that some of these differences
> get ironed out by putting consonants together in phonetic groupings.
 
How about simulation results? Have you done any ?
 
> Still, the metric is only approximate.  It enables us to point out that 36
> resemblant sets, half of them with only one resemblant consonant, isn't
> enough to indicate genetic relatedness unless a very small wordlist was
> specified in advance.
 
What is your conclusion on how many such pairs are needed?
 
Is this number for the whole language or just using a Swadesh like list?
 
 
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Best Regards,
Mark
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