Title: Stochastic models of language evolution and an application to the Indo-European family of languages
Author: Tandy Warnow and Steven N. Evans and Don Ringe and Luay Nakhleh
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Url: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/evans/659.pdf
Date: April  2004
Abstract:  We propose several models of how languages evolve, and discuss statistical estimation of evolution under these models.