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SUBMITTER: Fort J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4874439 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fort Joaquim J Pérez-Losada Joaquim J
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20160401 117
It has been proposed that a serial founder effect could have caused the present observed pattern of global phonemic diversity. Here we present a model that simulates the human range expansion out of Africa and the subsequent spatial linguistic dynamics until today. It does not assume copying errors, Darwinian competition, reduced contrastive possibilities or any other specific linguistic mechanism. We show that the decrease of linguistic diversity with distance (from the presumed origin of the e ...[more]