32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
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The Fallen Leaves Model
There are many, many labels that are proposed and each label they just basically refer to who is the origin of these whole language families. So can we just admit that we really don't have enough information to infer a whole phylogenies? These are the groups that we are agreed with. That's just imagine these other leaves are falling alongside of Himalayan. I really like this metaphor.
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