Explorations in automated language classification

Folia Linguistica

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 331-354

  Holman, Eric W ^a   Wichmann, Søren ^b   Brown, Cecil H ^c   Velupillai, Viveka ^d   Müller, André ^e   Bakker, Dik ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Language classification; Lexicostatistics; Swadesh list; Word stabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 58749111774     PISSN: 01654004     EISSN: 01654004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/FLIN.2008.331     Document Type: Article

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