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glottochronology Linguistics.|ˌglɒtəʊkrəˈnɒlədʒɪ|
[f. glotto- (see glosso-) + chronology.]
The application of statistics to vocabulary to determine the degree of relationship between two or more languages and the chronology of their splitting off from a common ancestor. Hence also ˌglottochronoˈlogic(al adjs.
1953J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. ii. 62 Glottochronology, a technique for inferring, from statistical comparisons of language systems, estimates not only of their probable familial relationships but also of the dates when the branches of a language family broke off from one another and from the parent language. 1955Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Ling. XXI. 116 There has been considerable interest in the application of statistical techniques to the study of language vocabulary, variously called glottochronology and lexico-statistical dating. Ibid. 118 An entirely different glottochronologic study. 1957J. H. Greenberg Ess. in Linguistics iv. 54 Recently glottochronological methods have been used. 1961New Scientist 13 July 77/3 The application of lexicostatistics (glottochronology) to African languages. 1964R. A. Hall Introd. Ling. lxvi. 381 The glottochronological method is based on a count, not of structural, but of lexical items. |