On the relation between structural diversity and geographical distance among languages: Observations and computer simulations

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 393-421

  Holman, Eric W ^a   Schulze, Christian ^b   Stauffer, Dietrich ^b   Wichmann, Søren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Areal typology; Computer simulation; Isolation by distance; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249158087     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LINGTY.2007.027     Document Type: Review

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