Measuring the diffusion of linguistic change

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1559, 2010, Pages 3821-3828

  Nerbonne, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dialects; Diffusion; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL TRADITION; DIFFUSION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LANGUAGE; MIGRATORY POPULATION;

EID: 78650351848     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0048     Document Type: Article

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