Correlating complexity: A typological approach

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-40

  Shosted, Ryan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Inflection; Inflectional synthesis; Morphology; Phonology; Syllable

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248692775     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LINGTY.2006.001     Document Type: Article

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