... http://www.biology-online.org/articles/elephants_imitate_sounds_form.html "It is exciting to see that African savannah elephants follow a pattern we've...
... A VOCAL-LEARNING SYSTEM COULD APPEAR ... --> IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD: FROM A FAMILY GROUP TO A LARGER LIVING GROUP --> IN A SITUATION, WHERE THE FAMILIES...
... And perhaps the /l/-extension means 'to a place out of sight', related to the root of Lat. <ultra:> 'beyond', OL <olle> 'that yonder', etc.?? *steh2- 'to...
... That *l- thing is not an adjective. I was think of things like *gl-énd- "look", cf. *gl-á-s "amber; eye", where the extension look loke an IE participle...
... http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Bastarnae http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Slavs Tell me where these are wrong then. ****GK: Shchukin is almost certainly...
... How so? As I understand it, defects in the FOXP2 gene in modern humans lead to defects in syntax use, not to neuro-muscular problems in the vocal tract....
... Because a VOCAL-LEARNING system appeared in a transition period: when smaller groups needs to unite in bigger groups for time to time (for survival...
... According to this compendium of lingustic reasoning of the last two hundred years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwXJsWHupg *xurvat- has a sort of woody...
... Hodge's methodology leaves a great deal to be desired. What he recognizes as "an unsatisfactory state of affairs" involving "problems in the establishment...
... Supply <est> or <erat>; <quibus> is dative of possession. quibus more gentico continuum ferri tegimen erat 'to whom, after the national fashion, a...
... So by "assigned to substrate" you mean nothing more than "has a specific phonetic shape", then. I think *that* may be our problem here. What "assigned to...
... Mnja, I was trying to define in more rigorous terms what Schrijver, Kuhn and others are doing when they set up a substrate for a set of languages. ... I...
... [...] ... You're confusing _evidence_for_ with _proof_of_. It's the latter that doesn't exist, not the former. Or you're misunderstanding 'evidence for'...
... What about it? ... All those water-words with labials, and what happened to Gmc. *apan- from Gaul. *abona 'water-sprite'? Did the poor monkey drown in all...
... One of Popper's demands on theories is that they should be as extensive as possible, ie. 'predict' as many facts as possible (vel sim.). That means I can...
... I. Geschwind's team engineered lines of brain cells in which they could turn FOXP2 on and off, and measure what happened to other genes as they did so. ...
It turns out that this mysterious /a/ for /e/ in the Northern Substrate (hm, vel sim.) that Douglas and I discussed and which Udolph mentioned for Slavic river...
... Actually, "Darwiniam Evolutionism based only 'on Random Mutations' " is indeed a studity (and an oxymoron)- but Darwiniam Evolutionism based on Random...
... You are referring Lat. <pa:pilio:> to *palpal-, then? What about Ital. <farfalla> and its numerous dialectal variants? Similar phonetic shape for...
... 1. David you have the eyes BUT you cannot see.... 2. The Darwinian Selection is a Valid Theory ...in the sense that a DNA modification trigerred by...