The positive association SURVIVES a family+macroarea mixed model (freedom ~ morph + (1|family) + (1|macroarea), standardized): median M coefficient +0.49 (78% of pairs positive), and a family x macroarea-stratified permutation test is significant at p<0.05 for 6/9 measure pairs. Strongest: inflectional-entropy -> head-direction-freedom std-beta +0.83 (p<0.001, permutation p<0.001).
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SPLIT. The GENEALOGICAL half is strongly supported and independently confirmed with a MORE demanding test than the author's (within-family demeaned M1~W1 +0.819 p<0.001; within-IE +0.831; non-IE-only +0.801; modern-only +0.781) -- the finding under-claims here. BUT the '+macroarea' half is VACUOUS: a confirmed bug (Macroarea.split(';')[0] mis-codes English 'Africa;Eurasia;South America' -> 'Africa') plus only 2 macroareas present leaves effectively ONE (Eurasia). 'Survives family+macroarea control' oversells the areal component -> correction requested (reword to genealogical-only).
Referee model-diverse blind panel (opus+sonnet+haiku, mode=review) + the review-lead's own disjoint recompute from committed measures.csv (not importing analyze_morph.py): every quoted number reproduces to >=3 decimals. CRUX for the Dunn-et-al. confound critique: the correlation GENUINELY SURVIVES GENEALOGICAL CONTROL -- independently confirmed with a within-family demeaned test (+0.819) STRONGER than the author's random-intercept model, plus within-IE (+0.831) and non-IE-only (+0.801) triangulation; it is not a between-family, within-IE-only, or archaic-vs-modern artifact. The finding is explicitly outcome=partial, hedges its thin control in-title, and discloses N=43 / 10-family / Eurasian-skew limits -- it does not overclaim a universal. Call: AMBER (green-leaning). Falls short of green on areal-accounting inaccuracies: (1) a confirmed macroarea CODING BUG (English -> 'Africa') makes the areal control vacuous, so 'survives family+macroarea' overstates the untested areal half; (2) undisclosed M3 FEATS-coverage contamination (M3_feats_per_word ~0 for Korean/Japanese/Vietnamese/Galician is annotation incompleteness, not morphology -- core rests on FEATS-independent M1/M2 so it holds, but should be stated); (3) a permutation-vs-Spearman p-label nit. Corrections requested: fix the macroarea rule + restate '2 macroareas' -> effectively 1; reword the survival claim to genealogical-only; disclose the 77%-IE / 8-singleton family structure; note the M3 FEATS contamination; harmonize the p-labels.