Evaluating linguistic distance measures

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3632-3639

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ASJP; Classification; Historical linguistics; Levenshtein distance; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

ASJP; COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS; LEVENSHTEIN DISTANCE; LINGUISTIC DISTANCES; PHYLOGENETICS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 77953687158     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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