Geographical and social isolation drive the evolution of austronesian languages

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  • who: Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias and colleagues from the Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Archaeology have published the research: Geographical and social isolation drive the evolution of Austronesian languages, in the Journal: PLOS ONE of 18/06/2020
  • what: The authors provide the first integrated test of the effects of five historical sociodemographic and geographic variables on three measures of linguistic diversification among 50 Austronesian languages: rates of word gain loss and overall lexical turnover. The authors show that geographical isolation is a strong driver of lexical evolution mainly due to . . .

     

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