The Foundation credits Noonan for loanword data but owns its own transmission-channel inference.
Imported citation, not independently checked: Benjamin J. Noonan, Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible (2019)
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Which scholarly traditions does the Foundation of Asha build on?
In This Tradition
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The Foundation adopted WOLD's external taxonomy to avoid choosing fields to fit its hypothesis.
Imported citation, not independently checked: Haspelmath and Tadmor, Loanwords in the World's Languages (2009)
The Foundation reports that its overwrite auditor failed an adversarial re-score.
Imported citation, not independently checked: Asher Wilder, In This Tradition
The Foundation's inferred scholarly alignments are not endorsements by the scholars it cites.
Imported citation, not independently checked: Asher Wilder, In This Tradition
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