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Can a linguistic serial founder effect originating in Africa explain the worldwide phonemic cline?

It has been proposed that a serial founder effect could have caused the present observed pattern of global phonemic diversity. Here we present a model that simulates the human range expansion out of Africa and the subsequent spatial linguistic dynamics until today. It does not assume copying errors,...

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Published in:J R Soc Interface
Main Authors: Fort, Joaquim, Pérez-Losada, Joaquim
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4874439/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27122180
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2016.0185
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