Publikationsdatum:
2012-03-03
Beschreibung:
Atkinson (Reports, 15 April 2011, p. 346) argues that the phonological complexity of languages reflects the loss of phonemic distinctions due to successive founder events during human migration (the serial founder hypothesis). Statistical simulations show that the type I error rate of Atkinson's analysis is hugely inflated. The data at best support only a weak interpretation of the serial founder hypothesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jaeger, T Florian -- Pontillo, Daniel -- Graff, Peter -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 2;335(6072):1042; author reply 1042. doi: 10.1126/science.1215107.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Brain and Cognitive Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268, USA. fjaeger@bcs.rochester.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22383830" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Schlagwort(e):
Humans
;
*Language
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*Phonetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Digitale ISSN:
1095-9203
Thema:
Biologie
,
Chemie und Pharmazie
,
Informatik
,
Medizin
,
Allgemeine Naturwissenschaft
,
Physik
