Talk:Claire Bowern

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This stub has a lot that can be added that will make it a much better article.

The first change would be adding some background information on Claire Bowern, or at least have some more information about her life as to give the article some base knowledge. In addition to this, going through some of her works to get a sense of what she thinks about certain topics and add a section that maybe posts some of her findings in her field.

Bibliography:

Haynie, H., Bowern, C., LaPalombara, H. (2014) Sound symbolism in the languages of Australia, PLoS ONE, 9(4), 1-16. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092852

Bowern, C. (2010). Historical Linguistics in Australia: trees, networks and their implications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1559), 3845-3854.

Bowern, C. (2012). The riddle of Tasmanian Languages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological sciences, 279(1747), 4590-4595. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1842.\

Wtpillars (talk) 05:29, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]