Demographic correlates of language diversity

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 557-578

  Greenhill, Simon J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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