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

It has been observed that the number of phonemes in languages in use today tends to decrease with increasing distance from Africa. A previous formal model has recently reproduced the observed cline, but under two strong assumptions. Here we tackle the question of whether an alternative explanation f...

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Main Authors: Joaquim Pérez-Losada, Joaquim Fort
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5983421?pdf=render