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  Language phylogeny trumps geography in lexical semantic variation

Dunn, M., & Majid, A. (2008). Language phylogeny trumps geography in lexical semantic variation. Talk presented at the 20th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference. Symposium “Cultural phylogenetics: Cultural evolution”. Kyoto University, Japan. 2008-06-04 - 2008-06-08.

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Datensatz-Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-10A4-E Versions-Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-10A6-A
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Dunn, Michael1, Autor           
Majid, Asifa2, Autor           
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1Evolutionary Processes in Language and Culture, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_55210              
2Language and Cognition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_55204              

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 Zusammenfassung: A central aim of the cross-cultural study of linguistic structure is to find factors motivating the observed variation. Aspects of structure from phonology to lexical semantics have been explained by biological, cultural and environmental factors. We address the lexical semantics of body part terminology. There is a hypothesis that the lexical differentiation of the upper limb into "hand" and "arm" (versus a single undifferentiated term) correlates with distance from the equator. But taking into account the evolutionary perspective we show that the correlation between absolute latitude and hand-arm terminological differentiation is an artifact of the highly skewed distribution of language families. We demonstrate this with two techniques: we use bootstrap sampling by language family to investigate variation within phylogenetically independent samples of languages, and we analyze variation within large families to show that lexical semantics is better predicted by clade membership than geography.

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 Datum: 2008
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Titel: the 20th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference. Symposium “Cultural phylogenetics: Cultural evolution”
Veranstaltungsort: Kyoto University, Japan
Start-/Enddatum: 2008-06-04 - 2008-06-08

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