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  <Title>Linguistic Distances</Title>
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Acknowledgments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We are indebted to our program committee and to the incidental reviewers named in the organizational section of the book, and to others who remain anonymous. We thank Peter Kleiweg for managing the production of the book and Therese Leinonen for discussions about phonetic similarity. We are indebted to the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), grant 20002100, for cooperation between the Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen, and the Seminar f&amp;quot;ur Sprachwissenschaft, T&amp;quot;ubingen, for support of the work which is reported on here. We are also indebted to the Volkswagen Stiftung for their support of a joint project &amp;quot;Measuring Linguistic Unity and Diversity in Europe&amp;quot; that is carried out in cooperation with the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia. The work reported here is directly related to the research objectives of this project.</Paragraph>
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