Evolution of the Ainu Language in Space and Time

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Sean ^a   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AINU LANGUAGE; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PREDICTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876845702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062243     Document Type: Article

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