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...
Main Authors: | Simon J. Greenhill, Xia Hua, Caela F. Welsh, Hilde Schneemann, Lindell Bromham |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00576/full |
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