Linguistics: evolution and language change

Claire Bowern

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.053

Linguistics: evolution and language change

Curr Biol. 2015 Jan 5;25(1):R41-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.053.

Author

Claire Bowern¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Linguistics, 370 Temple St, Rm 313, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: claire.bowern@yale.edu.

PMID: 25562300
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.053

Abstract

Linguists have long identified sound changes that occur in parallel. Now novel research shows how Bayesian modeling can capture complex concerted changes, revealing how evolution of sounds proceeds.

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MeSH terms

Cultural Evolution*
Humans
Phonetics*