Does phoneme inventory size correlate with population size?

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 161-170

  Donohue, Mark ^a   Nichols, Johanna ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84858681257     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2011.011     Document Type: Article

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