Climate, econiche, and sexuality: Influences on sonority in language

American Anthropologist

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 180-185

  Ember, Carol R ^a   Ember, Melvin ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Consonant vowel syllables; Cross linguistic research; Phonetic variation; Sonority

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947671433     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2007.109.1.180     Document Type: Article

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