Glottochronology as a heuristic for genealogical language relationships

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-316

  Wichmann, Søren ^a   Holman, Eric W ^b   Müller, André ^c   Velupillai, Viveka ^d   List, Johann Mattis ^e   Belyaev, Oleg ^f   Urban, Matthias ^g   Bakker, Dik ^h  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 78650109426     PISSN: 09296174     EISSN: 17445035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2010.512166     Document Type: Article

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