Historical linguistics in Australia: trees, networks and their implications
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Historical linguistics in Australia: trees, networks and their implications.
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0013