An examination of the article "Cladistic analysis of languages: Indo-European classification based on lexicostatistical data"

Cladistics is defined as "a classification scheme based on the historical sequence of divergence events (phylogeny); also used to identify a method of inferring phylogenies based on the presence of sheared derived characters (synapomorphies)" (Freeman, 2001). A paper was found on "cladistic analysis of languages: Indo-European classification based on lexicostatistical data," by examining this article a better understanding of how cladistical experimentation is preformed, can be achieved. In order to understand this, an examination of the …

…as there are people who are interested in this field more information about it will specific cases of it will be discovered. Works Cited Dyen, I., Kruskal, J.B., Black, P., 1992. An Indoeuropean classification: a lexicostatistical experiment. Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. 82, 1-132. Freeman, S. and Herron, J. Evolutionary Analysis. (3rd Ed.). New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc., 2001. Rexova, K. Frynta, D. and Zrzavy, Jan. 2003. Cladistic analysis of languages: Indo-European classification based on lexicostatistical data. Cladistics. 19: 120-127.