Computational feature-sensitive reconstruction of language relationships: Developing the ALINE distance for comparative historical linguistic reconstruction

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 340-369

  Downey, Sean S ^a   Hallmark, Brian ^a   Cox, Murray P ^b,c   Norquest, Peter ^a   Lansing, J Stephen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 65849334032     PISSN: 09296174     EISSN: 17445035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09296170802326681     Document Type: Article

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