Linguistics: Structural phylogenetics and the reconstruction of ancient language history

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5743, 2005, Pages 2072-2075

  Dunn, Michael ^a   Terrill, Angela ^a,b   Reesink, Ger ^a,b   Foley, Robert A ^c   Levinson, Stephen C ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

BIOLOGICAL CLADISTIC METHODS; LANGUAGE STRUCTURE; LINGUISTIC METHODS; SOUND SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS;

LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTORY; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MELANESIA; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL PHYLOGENETICS; ASIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; PACIFIC ISLANDS; TIME;

ASIA; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 25444475006     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114615     Document Type: Article

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