Re: New Methodology on Analysis of Language Change

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:34:29 +1000, Jacques Guy wrote:


>> In an accompanying commentary, Russell Gray of
>> the University of Auckland in New Zealand cautions that the new technique
>> still has uncertainty.
>
> The name is familiar. Probably the fellow whom I branded as a fraud
> a couple of years ago here.

I found some more on Russell Gray. He's in the Department of Psychology at
the University of Auckland. I think he might be a psycholinguist. He
published an article in Nature a few years ago supposedly confirming an
Anatolian origin for the Indo-European languages based on cladistics. The
article is here:

<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v426/n6965/abs/nature02029.html>

That might be what you're referring to.

Joe Murphy
Boy Linguist
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