Automated Classification of the World's Languages: A Description of the Method and Preliminary Results

STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 285-308

  Brown, Cecil H ^a   Holman, Eric W ^b   Wichmann, Søren ^c   Velupillai, Viveka ^d  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Institut fr Anglistik   (Germany)

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EID: 73649117686     PISSN: 09422919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/stuf.2008.0026     Document Type: Article

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