Finding families: Quantitative methods in language classification

Transactions of the Philological Society

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-55

  McMahon, April ^a   McMahon, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0344939527     PISSN: 00791636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-968X.00108     Document Type: Article

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