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Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages

Many recent proposals claim that languages adapt to their environments. The linguistic niche hypothesis claims that languages with numerous native speakers and substantial proportions of nonnative speakers (societies of strangers) tend to lose grammatical distinctions. In contrast, languages in smal...

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Autores principales: Shcherbakova, Olena, Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Haynie, Hannah J., Passmore, Sam, Gast, Volker, Gray, Russell D., Greenhill, Simon J., Blasi, Damián E., Skirgård, Hedvig
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10431698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37585533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf7704