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Lexical evolution rates by automated stability measure
Phylogenetic trees can be reconstructed from the matrix which contains the distances between all pairs of languages in a family. Recently, we proposed a new method which uses normalized Levenshtein distances among words with same meaning and averages on ...
Bakker D +13 more
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The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe. [PDF]
Lazaridis I +205 more
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The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population genetics. [PDF]
Gavashelishvili A +4 more
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Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene. [PDF]
Stoneking M +5 more
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Ancient Anatolian languages and cultures in contact
This paper contains a review of the methodological and theoretical frameworks that have been developed to deal with the study of language contact and linguistic areas. In the second part, examples of the combined linguistic and cultural-historical approach to ancient contact areas for phenomena in reciprocal direction is proposed, with particular ...
COTTICELLI, PAOLA, GIUSFREDI, FEDERICO
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Temporal Phylogenetic Networks and Logic Programming
The concept of a temporal phylogenetic network is a mathematical model of evolution of a family of natural languages. It takes into account the fact that languages can trade their characteristics with each other when linguistic communities are in contact,
Erdem, Esra +2 more
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Arabic dialects in Turkey — towards a comparative typology [PDF]
In a workshop devoted to Turkish dialects it is my pleasure to present a short survey of the dialectology of a language which is also spoken on the territory of Turkey and offers considerable dialect variation, namely ...
Jastrow, Otto
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An Etruscan solution to a Celtic problem
It is argued that what used to be called "P-Celtic" arose because Etruscans could not pronounce properly the Indo-European languages which they encountered in and around Italy. Etruscan influence can neatly explain not only the phenomenon of P-Celtic but
Counihan, Martin
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The Anatolian Subgroup of Indo-European in the Light of the “Minor” Languages [PDF]
H. Craig Melchert
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