Another universal bites the dust: Northwest Mekeo lacks coronal phonemes

Oceanic Linguistics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 264-273

  Blevins, Juliette ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 75949115744     PISSN: 00298115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ol.0.0033     Document Type: Article

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