There is no correlation between the size of a community speaking a language and the size of the phonological inventory of that language

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 376-383

  Pericliev, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a Bǎlgarska Akademija na Naukite ^*

^b Institut po Matematika i Informatika   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Phoneme inventories; Social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248696308     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.376     Document Type: Review

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4. Pericliev, Vladimir (1990). On heuristic procedures in linguistics. Studia Linguistica 43-2: 59-69