Branching Hypotheses

Branching Hypotheses is a theoretical framework in historical linguistics that posits the genealogical structure of proto-languages and their descendant languages through a tree model, distinguishing itself by specifying the sequential divergence of language subgroups from a common ancestral node based on shared innovations.

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  1. NI
    Norman I. Platnick

    American Museum of Natural History, United States

    4 publications · 208 citations

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    Gareth Nelson

    American Museum of Natural History, United States

    3 publications · 194 citations

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    Koen Bostoen

    Ghent University, Belgium

    2 publications · 79 citations

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    Allan Larson

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    2 publications · 157 citations

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    Rébecca Grollemund

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 79 citations

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  1. Systematic Biology

    4 publications · 262 citations

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  2. Oceanic Linguistics

    3 publications · 201 citations

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  3. Cladistics

    2 publications · 88 citations

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 2 publications · 470 citations

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  5. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

    1 publications · 55 citations

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