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Population Size and the Rate of Language Evolution: A Test Across Indo-European, Austronesian, and Bantu Languages

What role does speaker population size play in shaping rates of language evolution? There has been little consensus on the expected relationship between rates and patterns of language change and speaker population size, with some predicting faster rates of change in smaller populations, and others e...

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Autores principales: Greenhill, Simon J., Hua, Xia, Welsh, Caela F., Schneemann, Hilde, Bromham, Lindell
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5934942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29755387
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00576