Message from Joe Grimes (fwd)

[John Hewson]

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Marianne Mithun wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 06:36:48 -1000
> From: Joe Grimes <jgrimes at concentric.net>
> Subject: Change simulator
>
> Would you happen to have a line on any software to generate the
> correspondence sets from matching word lists, and store them as evidence
> for a hypothesis about the history of a family? I did a prototype once
> that works fine but is totally user unfriendly, even to me. Before I do a
> Windows application I'd like to make sure it isn't already covered
> somewhere.
>

John B. Lowe worked with Martine Mazaudon to set up a very efficient
Reconstruction Engine that finds cognates and reconstructs proto-forms. It
is adaptable to different language families. John's e-mail is

        jblowe at garnet.berkeley.edu

Their work was described in an article they did for the Bulletin de la
Socie'te' Linguistique de Paris about 10 years ago.


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John Hewson, FRSC                               tel: (709)737-8131
Henrietta Harvey Professor Emeritus             fax: (709)737-4000
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