connected text in PIE; Proto-World language

[James F. Bisso]

Anthony Appleyard wrote:

>  (1) When neural-net computers get advanced enough for people to
>simulate better than now human brain processes including language, it
>would be interesting to simulate language evolution and see over how
>many centuries and by what steps a language changes so much that all
>trace of common ancestry vanishes behind the `noise' of accidental
>resemblances.

Some folks are using artificial life (see http://alife.santafe.edu/)
techniques to model language change: (e.g., Luc Steels at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (http://arti.vub.ac.be/origin/origins.html).

jim