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Comment on "Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa".

Michael Cysouw1, Dan Dediu, Steven Moran.   

Abstract

We show that Atkinson's (Reports, 15 April 2011, p. 346) intriguing proposal--that global linguistic diversity supports a single language origin in Africa--is an artifact of using suboptimal data, biased methodology, and unjustified assumptions. We criticize his approach using more suitable data, and we additionally provide new results suggesting a more complex scenario for the emergence of global linguistic diversity.

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Year:  2012        PMID： 22323802     DOI： 10.1126/science.1208841

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


  8 in total

1.  A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populations.

Authors:  Nicole Creanza; Merritt Ruhlen; Trevor J Pemberton; Noah A Rosenberg; Marcus W Feldman; Sohini Ramachandran
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2015-01-20       Impact factor: 11.205

Review 2.  Integrating the signatures of demic expansion and archaic introgression in studies of human population genomics.

Authors:  Lauren Alpert Sugden; Sohini Ramachandran
Journal:  Curr Opin Genet Dev       Date:  2016-10-13       Impact factor: 5.578

3.  Dating the origin of language using phonemic diversity.

Authors:  Charles Perreault; Sarah Mathew
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2012-04-27       Impact factor: 3.240

4.  A serial founder effect model of phonemic diversity based on phonemic loss in low-density populations.

Authors:  Joaquim Pérez-Losada; Joaquim Fort
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2018-06-01       Impact factor: 3.240

5.  The geographical configuration of a language area influences linguistic diversity.

Authors:  John L A Huisman; Asifa Majid; Roeland van Hout
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2019-06-12       Impact factor: 3.240

6.  The vocal tract as a time machine: inferences about past speech and language from the anatomy of the speech organs.

Authors:  Dan Dediu; Scott R Moisik; W A Baetsen; Abel Marinus Bosman; Andrea L Waters-Rist
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2021-03-22       Impact factor: 6.237

7.  Modeling Linguistic Variables With Regression Models: Addressing Non-Gaussian Distributions, Non-independent Observations, and Non-linear Predictors With Random Effects and Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape.

Authors:  Christophe Coupé
Journal:  Front Psychol       Date:  2018-04-16

8.  Environment and culture shape both the colour lexicon and the genetics of colour perception.

Authors:  Mathilde Josserand; Emma Meeussen; Asifa Majid; Dan Dediu
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2021-09-27       Impact factor: 4.379
  8 in total

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