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Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, 6(6), p. e20109, 2011
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020109
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On the Accuracy of Language Trees
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Abstract
Historical linguistics aims at inferring the most likely language phylogenetic tree starting from information concerning the evolutionary relatedness of languages. The available information are typically lists of homologous (lexical, phonological, syntactic) features or characters for many different languages: a set of parallel corpora whose compilation represents a paramount achievement in linguistics.