From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phylogenetic inference?

Transactions of the Philological Society

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 193-219

  Atkinson, Quentin ^a,b   Nicholls, Geoff ^b   Welch, David ^b   Gray, Russell ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 25144480616     PISSN: 00791636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2005.00151.x     Document Type: Article

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