Comments on Jacques Guy's 'Lexicostatistics as Chess'.

The author provides a rebuttal to another rebuttal in the same issue written by linguist Jaques B. M. Guy entitled "Lexicostatistics as Chess: Observations on Paul Black's Lexicostatistics with Massive Borrowing." Paul Black, the author of the original article that Guy criticized, asserts that whate...

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Publicado en:Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 77 - 80
Autor principal: Black, Paul
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2007
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