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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
34
Citations
4812
World Ranking
6944
National Ranking
3374

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1933 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Best Publications

  • Automated dating of the world’s language families based on lexical similarity

    Eric W. Holman;Cecil H. Brown;Cecil H. Brown;Søren Wichmann;André Müller

  • Language and living things: Uniformities in folk classification and naming

    Robert Blust;Cecil H. Brown

  • Explorations in automated language classification

    Eric W. Holman;Søren Wichmann;Cecil H. Brown;Viveka Velupillai

  • Multiple lines of evidence for the origin of domesticated chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, in Mexico.

    Kraig H. Kraft;Cecil H. Brown;Gary Paul Nabhan;Eike Luedeling

  • Toward Explaining Human Culture: A Critical Review of the Findings of Worldwide Cross-Cultural Research

    David Levinson;Martin J. Malone;Cecil H. Brown

  • general principles of human anatomical partonomy and speculations on the growth of partonomic nomenclature1

    Cecil H. Brown

  • Folk Zoological Life‐Forms: Their Universality and Growth

    Cecil H. Brown

  • Adding typology to lexicostatistics: A combined approach to language classification

    Dik Bakker;Andre Muller;Viveka Velupillai;Søren Wichmann

  • Automated classification of the world′s languages: a description of the method and preliminary results

    Cecil H. Brown;Eric W. Holman;Søren Wichmann;Viveka Velupillai

  • Evaluating linguistic distance measures

    Søren Wichmann;Eric W. Holman;Dik Bakker;Cecil H. Brown

  • An Explanation of Color Nomenclature Universale

    Stanley R. Witkowski;Cecil H. Brown

  • Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages

    Cecil H. Brown

  • some general principles of biological and non‐biological folk classification1

    Cecil H. Brown;John Kolar;Barbara J. Torrey;Tipawan Truong-Quang

  • Sound Symbolism in Basic Vocabulary

    Søren Wichmann;Eric W. Holman;Cecil H. Brown

  • figurative language In a universalist perspective

    Cecil H. Brown;Stanley R. Witkowski

  • Folk Zoological Life‐Forms: Their Universality and Growth

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  • Sound Correspondences in the World's Languages

    Cecil H. Brown;Eric W. Holman;Søren Wichmann

  • MARKING-REVERSALS AND CULTURAL IMPORTANCE

    Stanley R. Witkowski;Cecil H. Brown

  • Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei

    Cecil H. Brown;Søren Wichmann

  • Chitimacha: a Mesoamerican language in the Lower Mississippi Valley

    Cecil H. Brown;Søren Wichmann;David Beck

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