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Mass comparison is a method developed by Joseph Greenberg to determine the level of genetic relatedness between languages. It is now usually called multilateral comparison. Mass comparison has been referred to as a "methodological deception" and is rejected by most linguists, and its continued use is primarily restricted to fringe linguistics.[1][2]
Some of the top-level relationships Greenberg named are now generally accepted thanks to analysis with other, more widely accepted linguistic techniques, though they had already been posited by others (e.g. Afro-Asiatic and Niger–Congo). Others are accepted by many though disputed by some prominent specialists (e.g. Nilo-Saharan), while others are almost universally rejected (e.g. Eurasiatic, Khoisan and Amerind).
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Masscomparison is a method developed by Joseph Greenberg to determine the level of genetic relatedness between languages. It is now usually called multilateral...
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termed his method "masscomparison" in an article of 1954 (reprinted in Greenberg 1955). As of 1987, he replaced the term "masscomparison" with "multilateral...
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to try and overcome this limitation, such as lexicostatistics and masscomparison. The former uses lexical cognates like the comparative method, while...
dwarfs, as this unit provides a convenient scale for comparison. The current best known value for the mass of Jupiter can be expressed as 1898130 yottagrams:...
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clear that the IPK lost perhaps 50 μg of mass over the last century, and possibly significantly more, in comparison to its official copies. The reason for...
outside Eurasiatic. In 1998, Joseph Greenberg extended his work in masscomparison, a methodology he first proposed in the 1950s to categorize the languages...
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similarities is rejected by nearly all comparative linguists (however, see masscomparison for a controversial method that operates by similarity). Instead of...
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unemployed and be unmarried in comparison to the general population, while in comparison to general homicide offenders, mass shooters were more likely to...
genetic structure of the family. Greenberg relied on his own method of masscomparison of vocabulary items rather than the comparative method of demonstrating...
brain size scales at approximately the ⅔ or ¾ exponent of the body mass. Comparison of a particular animal's brain size with the expected brain size based...
in comparison of resemblances involving both sound and meaning in specific forms."[page needed] "Masscomparison as against isolated comparisons between...
and space, in comparison to the producers" "[I]nformation distribution" – a "one to many" form of communication, whereby products are mass-produced and...
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A study was carried out by Ringe into the effects of chance on the masscomparison method. This showed that chance resemblances were critical to the technique...
scales around the two-thirds or three-quarters exponent of the body mass. Comparison of a particular animal's brain size with the expected brain size based...
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