Evidence for Direct Geographic Influences on Linguistic Sounds: The Case of Ejectives

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Everett, Caleb ^a  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MOTIVATION; NORTH AMERICA; PHARYNX; PHONEME; SOUND; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALTITUDE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84878905452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065275     Document Type: Article

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