コメント "音声の多様性は,アフリカから言語の拡大の連続的な創始者効果モデルをサポートする"

T Florian Jaeger1, Daniel Pontillo, Peter Graff

  • 1Brain and Cognitive Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268, USA. fjaeger@bcs.rochester.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 3, 2012
PubMed
まとめ

言語の音声学的複雑性は,人間の移住パターンを反映しているだけではありません. 統計分析は,連続的な創始者仮説の欠陥を明らかにし,移住と言語の多様性との間の弱いリンクのみを示唆しています.

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