Phylogeny

Stanley Friesen sarima at ix.netcom.com
Wed Oct 20 03:12:32 UTC 1999


At 09:07 PM 10/15/99 +0100, petegray wrote:

>By the way, in all the discussion of the UPenn tree, no one has referred to
>the book:
>"An Indo-european classification, a lexicostatistical experiment" by Joseph
>B Kruskal et al (Transactions of the American Philological Society, vol. 82,
>part 5).

>This may also show some strengths and limitations of a purely
>computer-generated model.

I have studied it on at least two occasions, and am quite skeptical of
their results.

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