Phonotactic Diversity Predicts the Time Depth of the World's Language Families

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Rama, Taraka ^a  

^a Språkbanken Department of Swedish Language ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED SIMILARITY JUDGMENT PROGRAM; AUTOMATION; BONE AGE; BOOK; DATA BASE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION SIZE; SEMANTICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VOCALIZATION; WORD LIST RECALL; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHONATION; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHONATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877853501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063238     Document Type: Article

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