Ontology highlight
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SUBMITTER: Hartmann F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10955398 | biostudies-literature | 2024
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hartmann Frederik F Roberts Seán G SG Valdes Paul P Grollemund Rebecca R
Evolutionary human sciences 20240103
Previous work has proposed various mechanisms by which the environment may affect the emergence of linguistic features. For example, dry air may cause careful control of pitch to be more effortful, and so affect the emergence of linguistic distinctions that rely on pitch such as lexical tone or vowel inventories. Criticisms of these proposals point out that there are both historical and geographic confounds that need to be controlled for. We take a causal inference approach to this problem to de ...[more]