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Comment on “Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa”

Author(s) -

Michael Cysouw,

Dan Dediu,

Steven Moran

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.1208841

Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , artifact (error) , linguistic diversity , linguistics , computer science , history , sociology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , anthropology

We show that Atkinson’s (Reports, 15 April 2011, p. 346) intriguing proposal—that global linguistic diversity supports a single language origin in Africa—is an artifact of using suboptimal data, biased methodology, and unjustified assumptions. We criticize his approach using more suitable data, and we additionally provide new results suggesting a more complex scenario for the emergence of global linguistic diversity

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