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Title: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of natural languages

Conference ·
OSTI ID:416814
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  1. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)

In this paper we present a new methodology for determining the evolutionary history of related languages. Our methodology uses linguistic information encoded as qualitative characters, and provides much greater precision than previous methods. Our analysis of Indo-European (IE) languages resolves questions that have troubled scholars for over a century.

OSTI ID:
416814
Report Number(s):
CONF-960121-; CNN: Grant CCR-9457800; Grant SBR-9512092; TRN: 96:005887-0037
Resource Relation:
Conference: 7. annual ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithms, Atlanta, GA (United States), 28-30 Jan 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithms; PB: 596 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English