Stochastic models of language evolution and an application to the Indo-European family of languages

Stochastic models of language evolution and an application to the Indo-European family of languages

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659
Authors
Tandy Warnow and Steven N. Evans and Don Ringe and Luay Nakhleh
Abstract

We propose several models of how languages evolve, and discuss statistical estimation of evolution under these models.

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