Multivariate Classification Methods for Lexical and Phonological Dissimilarities and Their Application to the Uto-Aztecan Family

We present some methodological guidelines for analyzing linguistic dissimilarity matrices, in particular graph-theoretic procedures and multivariate methods. We discuss the usefulness and limitations of phonological data besides lexical data as the basis of linguistic classification from data analysis procedures.

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