Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh's influence lives on here too

Diachronica

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 325-340

  Sullivan, Jennifer ^a   McMahon, April ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language varieties; Levenshtein distance; Networks; Phonetic features

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958533188     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.27.2.08sul     Document Type: Article

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