After a brief discussion of the relation holding between linguistics and genetics, the paper will focus on three assumptions : a) that statistics can be reliably applied to phonology ; b) that there is a relation between the size of a human population and the diversity of its phonetic system ; c) that the so-called founder effect reduces phonemic diversity. The author will seek to demonstrate that all three assumptions are incorrect.Après une rapide discussion des relations entretenues par la linguistique avec la génétique, l’article examine trois postulats : a) que les statistiques peuvent être appliquées de manière fiable à la phonologie ; b) qu’il existe une relation entre la taille d’une population humaine et la diversité de son système...
The causal correlations between human genetic variants and linguistic (typological) features could r...
Genetics interacts with and influences language and linguistics in at least four ways. First, and pe...
Languages and genes tell stories about the past but statistical analysis reveals that these are not ...
After a brief discussion of the relation holding between linguistics and genetics, the paper will fo...
Recent genetic studies attribute the negative correlation between population genetic diversity and d...
1. Introduction 1.1. Summary of Atkinson 2011 Atkinson (2011) sets out to test the so-called “seri...
reflects the loss of phonemic distinctions due to successive founder events during human migration (...
It is generally accepted that the relationship between human genes and language is very complex and ...
Beyond its theoretical success, the development of molecular genetics has brought about the possibil...
There are some 6000 languages spoken today, classfied in approximately 90 linguistic families and ma...
This text is intended to review how the history of languages and the history of human populations we...
While it would be difficult to dispute that individuals vary in their facility with both their nat...
Relationships between phonological systems and extralinguistic factors is controversial. Using a sam...
Recent and independent progresses achieved in population genetics and historical linguistics led to ...
It has been proposed that a serial founder effect could have caused the present observed pattern of ...
The causal correlations between human genetic variants and linguistic (typological) features could r...
Genetics interacts with and influences language and linguistics in at least four ways. First, and pe...
Languages and genes tell stories about the past but statistical analysis reveals that these are not ...
After a brief discussion of the relation holding between linguistics and genetics, the paper will fo...
Recent genetic studies attribute the negative correlation between population genetic diversity and d...
1. Introduction 1.1. Summary of Atkinson 2011 Atkinson (2011) sets out to test the so-called “seri...
reflects the loss of phonemic distinctions due to successive founder events during human migration (...
It is generally accepted that the relationship between human genes and language is very complex and ...
Beyond its theoretical success, the development of molecular genetics has brought about the possibil...
There are some 6000 languages spoken today, classfied in approximately 90 linguistic families and ma...
This text is intended to review how the history of languages and the history of human populations we...
While it would be difficult to dispute that individuals vary in their facility with both their nat...
Relationships between phonological systems and extralinguistic factors is controversial. Using a sam...
Recent and independent progresses achieved in population genetics and historical linguistics led to ...
It has been proposed that a serial founder effect could have caused the present observed pattern of ...
The causal correlations between human genetic variants and linguistic (typological) features could r...
Genetics interacts with and influences language and linguistics in at least four ways. First, and pe...
Languages and genes tell stories about the past but statistical analysis reveals that these are not ...