Contact and phylogeny in Island Melanesia

Lingua

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1664-1678

  Dunn, Michael ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Austronesian; Bayesian inference; Language contact; Linguistic prehistory; Papuan; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349133416     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.10.026     Document Type: Article

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