Detecting regular sound changes in linguistics as events of concerted evolution

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Hruschka, Daniel J ^a   Branford, Simon ^b   Smith, Eric D ^c,d   Wilkins, Jon ^c,e   Meade, Andrew ^b   Pagel, Mark ^b,c   Bhattacharya, Tanmoy ^c,f  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RONIN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84920430325     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.064     Document Type: Article

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