LANGUAGE POLYGENESIS - A PROBABILISTIC MODEL

Authors
FREEDMAN DA WANG WSY
Citation
Da. Freedman et Wsy. Wang, LANGUAGE POLYGENESIS - A PROBABILISTIC MODEL, Anthropological science, 104(2), 1996, pp. 131-137
Citations number
15
Journal title
Anthropological science → ACNP
ISSN journal
09187960
Volume
104
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
131 - 137
Database
ISI
SICI code
0918-7960(1996)104:2<131:LP-APM>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
Monogenesis of language is widely accepted, but the conventional argum ent seems to be mistaken; a simple probabilistic model shows that poly genesis is likely, Other prehistoric inventions are discussed, as are problems in tracing linguistic lineages.