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language diversification

Description: The process by which languages differentiate into distinct varieties or languages, shaped by population change, contact, and environmental conditions.
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Postcolonial English
2007 · Edgar W. Schneider · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,764
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
2014 · Routledge eBooks · 524
Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
2003 · Francesco d'Errico, Christopher Henshilwood, et al. · Journal of World Prehistory · 516
The Origin AND Diversification Of Language
2017 · Morris Swadesh · Routledge eBooks · 301
The origin and diversification of language
2001 · Kurt R. Jankowsky · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences · 245
The Origin and Diversification of Language
1999 · W. Tecumseh Fitch · American Anthropologist · 232
Proto-Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia
1991 · John U. Wolff, Malcolm D. Ross · Oceanic Linguistics · 230
Tools from evolutionary biology shed new light on the diversification of languages
2012 · Stephen C. Levinson, Russell D. Gray · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 173
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The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia
2010 · NICK EVANS, PATRICK MCCONVELL · Taylor & Francis eBooks · 157
Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity
2013 · Michael C. Gavin, Carlos A. Botero, et al. · BioScience · 123
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Review article. Voice in global English: unheard chords in crystal loud and clear. David Crystal
1999 · R Phillipson · Applied Linguistics · 118
Sino-tibetan-austronesian
2010 · Laurent Sagart · Taylor & Francis eBooks · 106
Austronesians in Papua: Diversification and Change in South-Halmahera-West New Guinea
2014 · David Kamholz · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 101
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Modeling convergence: Towards a reconstruction of the history of Quechuan–Aymaran interaction
2011 · Willem F.H. Adelaar · Lingua · 101
Cultural and climatic changes shape the evolutionary history of the Uralic languages
2013 · T Honkola, O Vesakoski, et al. · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 99
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Population Movements and Contacts in Language Evolution
2007 · Salikoko Mufwene · Journal of Language Contact · 92
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Unbalanced comparative patterns in historical linguistics: Theoretical implications and explanatory mechanisms for their development
2019 · Miceli, Luisa · UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia) · 87
Linguistic data on transmission of Southeast Asian cultigens to India and Sri Lanka
2010 · WARUNO MAHDI · Taylor & Francis eBooks · 87
Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversification in present-day standard English: the complementary role of small and large corpora
2006 · Christian Mair · BRILL eBooks · 87
The Origin and Subsequent Evolution of Language
2003 · Robin I. M. Dunbar · Oxford University Press eBooks · 82
Rice in Southeast Asia
2010 · ILIA PEJROS, VICTOR SHNIRELMAN · Taylor & Francis eBooks · 76
Neolithic correlates of ancient Tibeto-Burman migrations
2010 · GEORGE VAN DRIEM · Taylor & Francis eBooks · 73
The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift
2018 · Christian Bentz, Dan Dediu, et al. · Nature Human Behaviour · 72
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Global English and local language policies
2001 · Robert Phillipson · Language Problems & Language Planning · 67
A conservative look at diffusion involving Mixe-Zoquean languages
2010 · SøREN WlCHMANN · Taylor & Francis eBooks · 63
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Citation count: 7,551
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