Distributions of cognates in Europe as based on Levenshtein distance

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 157-166

  Schepens, Job ^a   Dijkstra, Ton ^a   Grootjen, Franc ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognate; language family; Levenshtein distance; orthographic similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955235047     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000623     Document Type: Article

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