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Tutorial on Computational Linguistic Phylogeny
Article first published online: 18 SEP 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00082.x
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Nichols, J. and Warnow, T. (2008), Tutorial on Computational Linguistic Phylogeny. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2: 760–820. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00082.x
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- Issue published online: 29 SEP 2008
- Article first published online: 18 SEP 2008
- Language and Linguistics Compass 2/5 (2008): 760–820, 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00082.x
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Abstract
Over the last 10 or more years, there has been a tremendous increase in the use of computational techniques (many of which come directly from biology) for estimating evolutionary histories (i.e., phylogenies) of languages. This tutorial surveys the different methods and different types of linguistic data that have been used to estimate phylogenies, explains the scientific and mathematical foundations of phylogenetic estimation, and presents methodologies for evaluating a phylogeny estimation method.