The time course of language change

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-96

  Juola, Patrick ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information theory; KL distance; Language change; Linguistic distance; Mathematics of language

Indexed keywords

EID: 31044439470     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021839220474     Document Type: Article

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