Consider the following sentence from an academic text on historical linguistics:
"Although nineteenth-century comparative linguists initially posited that Proto-Indo-European possessed a fully developed three-gender noun system, subsequent structural analysis of Anatolian tablets revealed that the archaic Anatolian branch preserved an earlier stage of the language featuring only an animate-inanimate distinction."
True or False: Based on the sentence above, it can be inferred that nineteenth-century comparative linguists formulated their initial hypothesis about Proto-Indo-European noun gender without incorporating structural evidence from Anatolian tablets.
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True. The sentence contrasts what linguists "initially posited" with findings from "subsequent" analysis of Anatolian tablets, directly implying that the initial hypothesis was formulated before the tablet evidence was analyzed.
The statement is true because the target sentence uses the modifier "subsequent" to characterize the analysis of Anatolian tablets relative to what nineteenth-century linguists "initially posited." This chronological framing logically guarantees that the initial hypothesis predated and did not rely upon the Anatolian tablet analysis.
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