How plausible is the hypothesis that population size and dispersal are related to phoneme inventory size? Introducing and commenting on a debate

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-153

  Bybee, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 84858656780     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2011.009     Document Type: Article

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