Essays about: "Neighbor-Net"

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  1. 1. Northern Aslian Linguistic Prehistory: Tracing the Effects of Contact

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Joanne Yager; [2013]
    Keywords : Aslian languages; language classification; linguistic contact; phylogenetic networks; Neighbor-Net; basic vocabulary; Menriq Rual; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the genealogical and contact-based connections among the Northern Aslian varieties, which form one of three subgroups of the Aslian subbranch of the Austroasiatic stock, spoken in Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand. The complex patterns of contact that exist among the speakers of the closely related Northern Aslian varieties coupled with a scarcity of data and a lack of written history give rise to difficulties in the representation of the historical relationships among these varieties using traditional models of language classification. READ MORE