Geographical distribution of phonological complexity

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 267-279

  Maddieson, Ian ^a   Bhattacharya, Tanmoy ^b   Smith, D Eric ^c   Croft, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84863337859     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2011.020     Document Type: Article

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