Behind Family Trees: Secondary Connections in Uralic Language Networks

Language Dynamics and Change

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 189-221

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

computational phylogenetics; family tree model; language evolution; meaning lists; phylogenetic networks; secondary connections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948774063     PISSN: 22105824     EISSN: 22105832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-00402007     Document Type: Review

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