Stuck in the forest: Trees, networks and Chinese dialects

Diachronica

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-60

  Hamed, Mahé Ben ^a   Wang, Feng ^b  

^a Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Distance based methods; Sinitic; Tree model; Word lists

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746039290     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.23.1.04ham     Document Type: Review

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