Evolution within a language: environmental differences contribute to divergence of dialect groups

Evolution within a language: environmental differences contribute to divergence of dialect groups

Abstract Background The processes leading to the diversity of over 7000 present-day languages have been the subject of scholarly interest for centuries. Several factors have been suggested to contribute to the spatial segregation of speaker populations and the subsequent linguistic divergence. Howev...

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Main Authors: Terhi Honkola, Kalle Ruokolainen, Kaj J. J. Syrjänen, Unni-Päivä Leino, Ilpo Tammi, Niklas Wahlberg, Outi Vesakoski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Dialect divergence
Linguistic microevolution
Multiple regression on distance matrices
Variation partitioning
Human ecology
Environmental variation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-018-1238-6

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