lexicostatistics

• Статистический метод, используемый в глоттохронологии для оценки времени расхождения разных языков от общего языка-предка.

A statistical technique used in glottochronology to estimate the time depth at which different languages diverged from a common ancestral language.

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   A method in historical linguistics that uses statistical analysis of vocabulary to estimate the time depth of language divergence from a common ancestor.

   Статистическое сравнение языков

   • Lexicostatistics helps linguists determine how long ago two languages split from a shared origin.
   • The study applied lexicostatistics to compare the core vocabularies of several Romance languages.
   • Critics of lexicostatistics argue that word replacement rates are not always constant over time.

   Синонимыglottochronology