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Analyzing the Rate at Which Languages Lose the Influence of a Common Ancestor
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Rafferty, Anna N.; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Klein, Dan – Cognitive Science, 2014
Analyzing the rate at which languages change can clarify whether similarities across languages are solely the result of cognitive biases or might be partially due to descent from a common ancestor. To demonstrate this approach, we use a simple model of language evolution to mathematically determine how long it should take for the distribution over…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Models, Evolution, Language Acquisition