Automated dating of the world's language families based on lexical similarity

Current Anthropology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 841-875

  Holman, Eric W ^a   Brown, Cecil H ^b   Wichmann, Søren ^c   Müller, André ^d   Velupillai, Viveka ^e   Hammarström, Harald ^f   Sauppe, Sebastian ^c   Jung, Hagen ^c   Bakker, Dik ^g   Brown, Pamela ^h   Belyaev, Oleg ⁱ   Urban, Matthias ^c   Mailhammer, Robert ^j   List, Johann Mattis ^k   Egorov, Dmitry ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h Independent scholar   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Russian Federation)

^j ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^l KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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DOI: 10.1086/662127     Document Type: Article

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