Phase 22 Results: The Onomastic Channel is Site-General — A Pre-registered Negative Result on Linear A and Knossian Mycenaean Greek.
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Pre-registered results for Phase 22. The primary hypothesis was rejected: Linear A word types are not phonotactically closer to Knossos-only than to Pylos-only Mycenaean Greek types; the observed effect runs in the opposite direction. A mandatory placebo control on the word-initial vowel axis was strongly significant (p = 1e-4), indicating that Knossian and Pylian Greek differ phonotactically for reasons unrelated to a Minoan substrate. Verdict: SITE-GENERAL. A secondary observation — that length-matched resampling reverses the sign of the final-vowel comparison — is reported as a methodological note, not as a finding, and motivates a follow-up phase. Pre-registration: doi 10.5281/zenodo.22741305.
Author: Papanikolaou, Christos
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212612964
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