Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration

Published:2019-03-15 Issue:6432 Volume:363 Page:
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Blasi D. E.¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Moran S.¹²^ORCID,Moisik S. R.⁶^ORCID,Widmer P.¹²^ORCID,Dediu D.⁷⁸^ORCID,Bickel B.¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.

2. Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.

3. Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.

4. Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.

5. Laboratory of Quantitative Linguistics, Kazan Federal University, 420000 Kazan, Russia.

6. Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 637332 Singapore.

7. Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage UMR 5596, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 69363 Lyon Cedex 07, France.

8. Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6525 XD Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Abstract

The first fricatives In 1985, the linguist Charles Hockett proposed that the use of teeth and jaws as tools in hunter-gatherer populations makes consonants produced with lower lip and upper teeth (“f” and “v” sounds) hard to produce. He thus conjectured that these sounds were a recent innovation in human language. Blasi et al. combined paleoanthropology, speech sciences, historical linguistics, and methods from evolutionary biology to provide evidence for a Neolithic global change in the sound systems of the world's languages. Spoken languages have thus been shaped by changes in the human bite configuration owing to changes in dietary and behavioral practices since the Neolithic. Science , this issue p. eaav3218

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NWO VIDI

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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