Shedding more light on language classification using basic vocabularies and phylogenetic methods: A case study of Uralic

Diachronica

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 323-352

  Syrjänen, Kaj ^a   Honkola, Terhi ^b   Korhonen, Kalle ^c   Lehtinen, Jyri ^c   Vesakoski, Outi ^b   Wahlberg, Niklas ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Basic vocabulary; Computational phylogenetics; Historical linguistics; Uralic languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879232112     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.30.3.02syr     Document Type: Article

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