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机构信息
Research Unit Quantitative Language Comparison, Ludwig Maximilian University, Geschwister Scholl Platz 1, D-80539 Munich, Germany.
出版信息
Science. 2012 Feb 10;335(6069):657; author reply 657. doi: 10.1126/science.1208841.
We show that Atkinson's (Reports, 15 April 2011, p. 346) intriguing proposal--that global linguistic diversity supports a single language origin in Africa--is an artifact of using suboptimal data, biased methodology, and unjustified assumptions. We criticize his approach using more suitable data, and we additionally provide new results suggesting a more complex scenario for the emergence of global linguistic diversity.
我们表明，阿特金森（Reports，2011 年 4 月 15 日，第 346 页）提出的有趣观点——即全球语言多样性支持非洲单一语言起源——是使用次优数据、有偏见的方法和不合理假设的结果。我们使用更合适的数据来批评他的方法，并且还提供了新的结果，表明全球语言多样性的出现呈现出更为复杂的情景。
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