Aslian linguistic prehistory: A case study in computational phylogenetics

Diachronica

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 291-323

  Dunn, Michael ^a,b   Burenhult, Niclas ^b,c   Kruspe, Nicole ^d   Tufvesson, Sylvia ^b   Becker, Neele ^b,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aslian languages; Austroasiatic languages; Computational phylogenetics; evolutionary modeling; Mon Khmer languages; Orang Asli

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053196430     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.28.3.01dun     Document Type: Article

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