Correlates of Reticulation in Linguistic Phylogenies

Language Dynamics and Change

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-240

  Wichmann, Søren ^a   Holman, Eric W ^b   Rama, Taraka ^c   Walker, Robert S ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

ASJP; delta; historical linguistics; phylogenetics; Q residuals; reticulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890933075     PISSN: 22105824     EISSN: 22105832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/221058212X648072     Document Type: Article

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