Measures of lexical distance between languages

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2280-2283

  Petroni, Filippo ^a   Serva, Maurizio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Historical linguistics; Levenshtein distance; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS;

AUTOMATED METHODS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LEVENSHTEIN DISTANCE; MEASURING DISTANCES; PHYLOGENETICS; WORD LISTS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77949570304     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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