Rate of language evolution is affected by population size

Lindell Bromham; Xia Hua; Thomas Fitzpatrick; Simon Greenhill

doi:10.1073/pnas.1419704112

Rate of language evolution is affected by population size

Lindell Bromham, Xia Hua, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Simon Greenhill

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The effect of population size on patterns and rates of language evolution is controversial. Do languages with larger speaker populations change faster due to a greater capacity for innovation, or do smaller populations change faster due to more efficient

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2097-2102
Journal	PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	112
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419704112
Publication status	Published - 2015

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