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What does glottochronology mean?

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Noun
  1. The study of languages to determine when they diverged from being the same language.
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Despite the outcry, glottochronology is still employed, but in mathematically increasingly complex and conceptually more sophisticated models.
It differs from glottochronology in the methods used to construct the tree and compute the dates.
He added that their argument assumed a constant rate of language change, the very point they know is wrong in glottochronology.
Glottochronology and the chronology of maize in the Americas.
Because of these and other problems, many linguists have given up on glottochronology, showing more interest in an ingenious dating method known as linguistic paleontology.
Many of the papers in these volumes show a revival of interest in the much criticised techniques of glottochronology and lexicostatistics.

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