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Australian languages: A singular vision1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2008

PETER SUTTON  and
HAROLD KOCH
PETER SUTTON*
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide/South Australian Museum
HAROLD KOCH*
Affiliation:
Australian National University
*
Authors' addresses: South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia. peter.sutton@adelaide.edu.au
School of Language Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. harold.koch@anu.edu.au
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , July 2008 , pp. 471 - 504
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Sections 1 and 4 of this article were co-authored; sections 3.9 and 3.10 were written by Sutton; the remainder of the paper was written by Koch. We acknowledge kind permission by Nicholas Evans and Pacific Linguistics, and Peter Hiscock to reproduce figures 1 and 2, respectively, and very helpful comments on the paper by two anonymous JL reviewers and David Nash, Claire Bowern and Barry Alpher.

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