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Peer reviewedBhat, D. N. S. – Language Sciences, 1975
The comparative method is not a single method of reconstruction but a complex set of procedures based on different assumptions and hypotheses about language change. The paper examines sound-meaning relationships, traditions, phonetic distinctions and the sets of oppositions, & regularity and irreversibility of phonetic change in the discussion.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Typology
Peer reviewedHakola, H. P. A. – Language Sciences, 1989
Examination of accidental CVC and CV correspondences among languages representing 5 large families of agglutinative languages found that comparison pairs had much more similarity between basic 100-word vocabularies than would have been possible by mere chance, supporting the hypothesis that those 5 language families were mutually related.…
Descriptors: Finnish, Glottochronology, Japanese, Language Classification
