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Geographic Approach: Identifying Relatively Stable Tibetan Dialect and Subdialect Area Boundaries
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In: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information; Volume 11; Issue 5; Pages: 280 (2022)
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Americanismos en el sur de los Estados Unidos ; Americanisms in the South of USA
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Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea
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Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior. Decreasing linguistic diversity from the equator towards the poles suggests that ecological factors influence linguistic geography. However, attempts to quantify the role of environmental factors in shaping linguistic diversity remain inconclusive. To this end, we apply Ecological Niche Modelling methods to present-day language diversity in New Guinea. We define an Eco-Linguistic Niche (ELN) as the range of environmental conditions present in the territory of a population speaking a specific language or group of languages characterized by common language traits. In order to reconstruct the ELNs, we used Papuan and Austronesian language groups, transformed their geographical distributions into occurrence data, assembled available environmental data for New Guinea, and applied predictive architectures developed in the field of ecology to these data. We find no clear relationship between linguistic diversity and ELNs. This is particularly true when linguistic diversity is examined at the level of language groups. Language groups are variably dependent on environment and generally share their ELN with other language groups. This variability suggests that population dynamics, migration, linguistic drift, and socio-cultural mechanisms must be taken into consideration in order to better understand the myriad factors that shape language diversity.
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Cartography; Ecological niches; Environmental geography; Geographic distribution; Islands; Language; Language families; Linguistic geography
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32462
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-1835-6315
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-8894-2283
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239359
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Cross-dialectal diversity in Mukrī Kurdish I: phonological and phonetic variation [Online resource]
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In: Journal of Linguistic Geography 9.2021 (2021) 1, 1-12
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French Geolinguistics and Linguistic Atlases From nascency to the status quo ...
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French Geolinguistics and Linguistic Atlases From nascency to the status quo ...
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