Cross-Language Distributions of High Frequency and Phonetically Similar Cognates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Schepens, Job ^a,b   Dijkstra, Ton ^a,b   Grootjen, Franc ^a   van Heuven, Walter J B ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LANGUAGE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; CROSS LANGUAGE SIMILARITY DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; PHONETICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPELLING; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORD RECOGNITION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84877591464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063006     Document Type: Article

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