Revisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size

Language

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 877-893

  Moran, Steven ^a   McCloy, Daniel ^a   Wright, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixed models; Phoneme inventories; Population size; Sampling; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871534780     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2012.0087     Document Type: Note

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