Quantitative properties of the evolution and classification of languages

DOI10.1007/BF01202581MaRDI QIDQ2563534zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric W. Holman

Publication date 23 March 1997

Published in Journal of Classification (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01202581

zbMATH Keywords

birth and death processcladistic methodsevolutionary rateslanguage evolutionlinguistic evolutionphenetic methodsphylogenetic classification of languagesphylogenetic treetaxonomic methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Linguistics (91F20)

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