21. Schuster was a believer in the comparative method . 22. Starting around that time along with rhyme books, and more use of the traditional comparative method . 23. Veske was one of the first Estonian linguists to use the comparative method of historical linguistics. 24. Within this field, sociologists often use historical-comparative methods . 25. The actual development of the comparative method was a more gradual process than Greenberg's detractors suppose. 26. It is not phonetic similarity which matters when utilizing the comparative method , but regular sound correspondences. 27. By contrast, some approaches are incompatible with the Comparative method , including glottochronology and mass lexical comparison. 28. The former uses lexical cognates like the comparative method but the latter uses only lexical similarity. 29. Using the comparative method they established that no pterodactyloid group has obvious strong affinities to the species. 30. However, most of his academic work dealt with democratization, which he had studied with international comparative methods .
