{"id":2186,"date":"2011-04-17T00:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T22:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T09:57:37","slug":"where-and-when-did-languages-emerge-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/icci-blog\/where-and-when-did-languages-emerge-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Where and when did languages emerge? The answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Science, a new paper by Quentin D. Atkinson &#8220;Phonemic Diversity Supports aSerial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa&#8221; is generating a lot of well-deserved interest (see <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/Languages-Grew-From-a-Seed-in-Africa-a-Study-Says-The-New-York-Times.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/All-languages-may-originate-from-Africa_-study.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Mother-of-All-Languages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here <\/a>for instance).<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Human genetic and phenotypic diversity declines with distance from Africa, as predicted by a serial founder effect in which\u00a0successive population bottlenecks during range expansion progressively reduce diversity, underpinning support for an African origin of modern humans. Recent work suggests that a similar founder effect may operate on human culture and language. Here I show that the number of phonemes used in a global sample of 504 languages is also clinal and fits a serial founder \u2013 effect model of expansion from an inferred origin in Africa. This result, which is not explained by more recent demographic history, local language diversity, or statistical non-independence within language families, points to parallel mechanisms shaping genetic and linguistic diversity and supports an African origin of modern human languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Science, a new paper by Quentin D. Atkinson &#8220;Phonemic Diversity Supports aSerial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa&#8221; is generating a lot of well-deserved interest (see here, here, or here for instance). Abstract: Human genetic and phenotypic diversity declines with distance from Africa, as predicted by a serial founder effect in which\u00a0successive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where and when did languages emerge? 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