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work_g4l2piq3lrdvdglsb7bpwsepve	Christopher Hitchcock	The Common Cause Principle in Historical Linguistics	1998	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10932	696	57	linguistics conform to Reichenbach's common cause principle (CCP). CCP that have been discussed in the abstract by philosophers correspond to textbook caveats regarding inference in historical linguistics. (i) Although we assumed that the frequencies reliably indicate probabilities in this example, it is correlations among the probabilities themselves, not the frequencies, that bespeak common causes. between methods of computing Avogadro's number constitutes a striking correlation, to be explained in terms of a common cause: the actual difference between the ways in which evolutionary biology and historical linguistics attempt to answer one of these types of question. ancestral language from which English and German have both descended--within which this common cause type is sometimes instantiated. who have attempted to base genealogical inferences upon phonetic similarities of words in different languages, most notably Joseph Greenberg, have met with strong resistance. Similarly, in historical linguistics, inferences about the common ancestry of languages are often made without any explicit attempt to 	./cache/work_g4l2piq3lrdvdglsb7bpwsepve.pdf	./txt/work_g4l2piq3lrdvdglsb7bpwsepve.txt