Neighbour-nets portray the Chinese dialect continuum and the linguistic legacy of China's demic history

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1567, 2005, Pages 1015-1022

  Hamed, Mahé Ben ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Borrowing; Chinese; Dialect continuum; Diglossia; Language change; Neighbour net

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 21744463042     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3015     Document Type: Article

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