Historical linguistics in Australia: Trees, networks and their implications

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1559, 2010, Pages 3845-3854

  Bowern, Claire ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australian languages; Historical linguistics; Phylogenetics; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 78650378878     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0013     Document Type: Article

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