Out of Africa? The logic of phoneme inventories and founder effects

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-216

  Bowern, Claire ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84856987395     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2011.015     Document Type: Article

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