[Ads-l] "The root of all languages"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Feb 24 17:48:34 UTC 2016


> On Feb 24, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
> 
>      From: Geoffrey Steven Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "The root of all languages"
> 
> There's no evidence of bandanas or jai alai cestas in Cro Magnon excavations. So there's that...

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

LH
> 
> 
>> On Feb 24, 2016, at 9:29 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> =
> wrote:
>> =20
>> A few years ago, I reviewed and introductory phonetics text for speech
>> students that claimed that Basque was spoken by Cro-Magnon 45,000 =
> years
>> ago.
> 

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