Study shows ancient relations between language families

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 22:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

How do language families evolve over many thousands of years? How stable over time are structural features of languages? Researchers introduced a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to analyse the evolution of structural features in more than 50 language families.

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