Comment on "Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa"

Comment on "Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa"

Atkinson (Reports, 15 April 2011, p. 346) concluded that language originated in western Africa and that, due to a serial founder effect, languages repeatedly lost phonemes the farther they moved from the African point of origin. Independent examination of the published data tends to refute both thes...

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Veröffentlicht in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2012-02, Vol.335 (6069), p.657; author reply 657-657
Hauptverfasser: Van Tuyl, Rory, Pereltsvaig, Asya
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Humans
Language
Phonetics
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Zusammenfassung:Atkinson (Reports, 15 April 2011, p. 346) concluded that language originated in western Africa and that, due to a serial founder effect, languages repeatedly lost phonemes the farther they moved from the African point of origin. Independent examination of the published data tends to refute both these claims.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1209176