Glottochronology as a Heuristic for Genealogical Language Relationships
نویسندگان
چکیده
Søren Wichmann Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Leiden University Eric W. Holman University of California, Los Angeles André Müller University of Leipzig Viveka Velupillai Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen Johann-Mattis List Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Oleg Belyaev Moscow State University Matthias Urban Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Dik Bakker University of Amsterdam & University of Lancaster
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010