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Inferring linguistic transmission between generations at the scale of individuals

2018-10-13

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Historical linguistics strongly benefited from recent methodological advances inspired by phylogenetics. Nevertheless, no available method uses contemporaneous within-population linguistic diversity to reconstruct the history of human populations. Here, we developed an approach inspired from population genetics to perform historical linguistic inferences from linguistic data sampled at the individual scale, within...

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5c5a0c5f-a771-5dc8-b6d4-32a8910e05a4
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10.1101/441246
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