Joshua McNeill<p>"In this study, we improved the <a href="https://h4.io/tags/methodology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methodology</span></a> by teasing out two distinct measures: <a href="https://h4.io/tags/fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fusion</span></a> (how many <a href="https://h4.io/tags/affixes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>affixes</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/verbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verbs</span></a> and <a href="https://h4.io/tags/nouns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nouns</span></a> have) and informativity (how many distinctions are made)."</p><p>Yeesh. Regardless of the merits of the study, this is extremely poor framing, especially a <a href="https://h4.io/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> article, as it's really just asking if <a href="https://h4.io/tags/fusional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fusional</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>languages</span></a> specifically are correlated with environment.</p><p><a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguisticcomplexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguisticcomplexity</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morphology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evolution-complex-grammars-grammatical-complexity.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2023-08-evolutio</span><span class="invisible">n-complex-grammars-grammatical-complexity.html</span></a></p>