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Evolution within a language: environmental differences contribute to divergence of dialect groups.
BMC evolutionary biology - 3 Sept 2018
Honkola Terhi, Ruokolainen Kalle, Syrjänen Kaj J J, Leino Unni-Päivä, Tammi Ilpo, Wahlberg Niklas, Vesakoski Outi
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BACKGROUND: The processes leading to the diversity of over 7000 present-day languages have been the subject of scholarly interest for centuries. Several factors have been suggested to contribute to the spatial segregation of speaker populations and the subsequent linguistic divergence. However, their formal testing and the quantification of their relative roles is still missing. We focussed here on the early...
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