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serial founder effect model of language expansion: a standalone construct

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Language evolution

proposal that phoneme inventory size declines with distance from Africa because successive small migrating groups lost phonemic diversity.

In language evolution, serial founder effect model of language expansion refers to proposal that phoneme inventory size declines with distance from Africa because successive small migrating groups lost phonemic diversity. This meaning comes from Atkinson (2011) in Science.[1]

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diversity3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs expansion4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four expansions founder effect1 fields · 3 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Atkinson, Q. D. (2011). Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa. Science, 332(6027), 346-349. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1199295

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