Comparative analysis of networks of phonologically similar words in English and Spanish

Entropy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 327-337

  Arbesman, Samuel ^a   Strogatz, Steven H ^b   Vitevitch, Michael S ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; English; Language network; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953530643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e12030327     Document Type: Article

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