Assessing the lexical evidence for a Central Solomons Papuan family using the Oswalt Monte Carlo Test

Diachronica

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-27

  Dunn, Michael ^a,b   Terrill, Angela ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Levenshtein distance; Lexical comparison; Oswalt test; Papuan languages; Randomization; Solomon Islands languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858838061     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.29.1.01dun     Document Type: Article

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