Geographic distributions of linguistic variation reflect dynamics of differentiation

Roots: Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 267-297

  Nerbonne, John ^a   Heeringa, Wilbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences   (Netherlands)

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