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Evidence for Direct Geographic Influences on Linguistic Sounds: The Case of Ejectives
We present evidence that the geographic context in which a language is spoken may directly impact its phonological form. We examined the geographic coordinates and elevations of 567 language locations represented in a worldwide phonetic database. Languages with phonemic ejective consonants were foun...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23776463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065275 |