Comment on "phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from africa"

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6069, 2012, Pages

  Cysouw, Michael ^a   Dediu, Dan ^b,c   Moran, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; FOUNDER EFFECT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; NOTE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERIAL FOUNDER EFFECT; SOUTH AMERICA; TOTAL NORMALIZED PHONEME DIVERSITY; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS;

EID: 84857027517     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1208841     Document Type: Note

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