
32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
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The Drawbacks of the Metaphor for Swedish and Mandarin
People can categorize, oh, there are some groups that are more closer to each other than others. So somehow these fallen leaves is in a way saying, no, your findings is not really relevant. We just say we are agree on these little groups and we don't really set these larger, you know, a little bit more upper layers of relationship. But I do think that this metaphor has some sort of meaning there. It's just we need more. Ben dream really had to say that more clear what he think is we need more information, more feel work, more language data to confirm.
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