Support for linguistic macrofamilies from weighted sequence alignment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 41, 2015, Pages 12752-12757

  Jäger, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Historical linguistics; Linguistic macrofamilies; Mass lexical comparison; Phylogenetic methods

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84944097477     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500331112     Document Type: Article

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