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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-09-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-018-1238-6 |