The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From bioinformatics to lexomics

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 271-283

  Greenhill, Simon J ^a   Blust, Robert ^b   Gray, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

ABVD; Austronesian; Database; Lexicon; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGENY; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 56849124020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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