Analyzing Dialects Biologically
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چکیده
This paper sketches some parallels in analyzing linguistic and biological data, emphasizing how methods taken from biology have been applied in dialectometry. We also present a technique developed specifically for detecting distinctive properties in (putative) groups of linguistic varieties (species) as this illustrates how the linguistic enterprise perhaps differs from the biological one.
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