... Latin ancestor, parameterized by transformations ϕ and survival variables S. Languages shownare Latin (LA), Vulgar Latin (VL), Proto-Iberian (PI), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), and Spanish ... and Malay, tosee if similar patterns hold there, too.Some authors have attempted to automaticallydetect cognate words (Mann and Yarowsky, 2001;Lowe and Mazaudon, 1994; Oakes, 2000; Kon-drak, ... distance: Application in handwrittencharacter recognition. Pattern Recognition, 39(9).Don Ringe, Tandy Warnow, and Ann Taylor. 2002.Indo-european and computational cladistics. Trans-actions...