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. |