The riddle of Tasmanian languages

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1747, 2012, Pages 4590-4595

  Bowern, Claire ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary anthropology; Linguistics; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENETICS;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84867562631     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842     Document Type: Article

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