Computational Models and Language Contact

Handbook of Language Contact

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 128-147

  Mcmahon, April ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andean and Indo European lolo lists; Computational models and language contact; Different implementations of levenshtein distances; Language contact being everywhere; Loanwords and lexicon; Morphosyntactic comparison least developed area; Parallel shifts of position in trees and networks found for languages; Phonetics and phonology; Quantitative and computational methods in areas of historical linguistics

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EID: 84885488808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318159.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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