13 February 2024, 02:34 PM
wtgLinguistic roots
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A new look at our linguistic roots
Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where, and when, the first Indo-European languages were spoken, and what kind of lives those first speakers led. A controversial new analytic technique offers a fresh answer.
Turn on the closed captioning for the video.
https://knowablemagazine.org/c...o-european-languages
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Bazootiehead-in-training
13 February 2024, 07:25 PM
Piano*DadMy ignorant question of this whole computational phylogeny approach is that calculations may be very sensitive to small changes in assumptions. As I read through the disputes between camps, that seemed to be the case. In economics, we would say that these techniques/models aren't robust. That doesn't mean they're silly or wrong, just that the results you get can change dramatically if you tweak the assumptions a tiny bit.