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The document critically examines lexicostatistics, a quantitative method for measuring linguistic relatedness and estimating language divergence developed by Morris Swadesh in the mid-twentieth century. While it has faced significant criticism regarding its assumptions of constant lexical change and the subjectivity in cognate identification, it remains a valuable tool in historical linguistics and has influenced modern computational approaches. The paper argues for the continued relevance of lexicostatisti
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- barrittaddison
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