Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics.
Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics.
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比较语言学的数学方法。
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.94.13.6585
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Warnow,T
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作者：
Warnow,T
推断一组语言的进化史是一个复杂的问题。虽然众所周知，有些语言是通过共同祖先语言的后裔而联系在一起的，但对于其他语言来说，确定这种关系是否成立本身就是一个困难的问题。在这篇文章中，我们报道了语言学家约翰娜·尼科尔斯(加州大学伯克利分校)、唐纳德·林奇和安·泰勒(宾夕法尼亚大学费城分校)以及我为回答这一领域中一些最困难的问题而开发的新方法。这些方法和基于这些方法的分析结果于1995年11月在美国国家科学院举行的科学前沿专题讨论会上发表。
The inference of the evolutionary history of a set of languages is a complex problem. Although some languages are known to be related through descent from common ancestral languages, for other languages determining whether such a relationship holds is itself a difficult problem. In this paper we report on new methods, developed by linguists Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley), Donald Ringe and Ann Taylor (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), and me, for answering some of the most difficult questions in this domain. These methods and the results of the analyses based on these methods were presented in November 1995 at the Symposium on the Frontiers of Science held by the National Academy of Sciences.