Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: Issues of understanding and representation

Diachronica

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 523-537

  Greenhill, Simon J ^a   Gray, Russell D ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84871303924     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.29.4.05gre     Document Type: Review

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