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Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Dec 2017

Lansing J Stephen, Abundo Cheryl, Jacobs Guy S, Guillot Elsa G, Thurner Stefan, Downey Sean S, Chew Lock Yue, Bhattacharya Tanmoy, Chung Ning Ning, Sudoyo Herawati, Cox Murray P

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Languages are transmitted through channels created by kinship systems. Given sufficient time, these kinship channels can change the genetic and linguistic structure of populations. In traditional societies of eastern Indonesia, finely resolved cophylogenies of languages and genes reveal persistent movements between stable speech communities facilitated by kinship rules. When multiple languages are present in a...

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PMID: 29158378
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706416114
PMCID: PMC5724253

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