Sound correspondences in theworld's languages

Language

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-29

  Brown, Cecil H ^a   Holman, Eric W ^b   Wichmann, Søren ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Historical linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Sound change; Sound correspondences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875413881     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2013.0009     Document Type: Article

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