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Publication details [#28672]

Murdock, George Peter. 1993. Cross-language parallels in parental kin terms. Anthropological Linguistics 35 (1-4) : 421–425.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
crosslinguistic perspective | mother-child conversation | nursery school | reference | universal utterance
Place, Publisher
Indiana University
ISBN
0003-5483

Annotation

This study confirms the hypothesis of a universal linguistic tendency to develop similar parental kin terms based on nursery forms.