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Krystal D’Acosta: Everett believes the conditions at higher altitudes may encourage the production of ejective phonemes [a…
The last several weeks has witnessed a flurry of excitement (and not a little criticism) over the publication of Caleb Everett’s…
There’s a pretty neat series of maps featured in Business Insider making the rounds on various social channels. They tell us…
There’s a pretty neat series of maps featured in Business Insider making the rounds on various social channels. They tell us…
View from Devil's Path east of Indian Head Mountain in Catskill Mountains. | Image, CC by Miguel Vieira. Click for license and…
On the weekend I did an analysis about a recent paper by Caleb Everett linking altitude to the presence of ejective sounds in a…
Hace un par de semanas Caleb Everett, hijo de Daniel Everett, publicó un artículo en el que mostraba la existencia de una…
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Caleb Everett, "Evidence for Direct Geographic Influences on Linguistic Sounds: The Case of Ejectives", PLoS ONE, 2013: We…
According to new research reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, the geographic context in which a language is spoken…
A recent paper in PLOS ONE by Caleb Everett looks at whether geography can affect phoneme inventories. Everett finds that…
The human voice is capable of forming a plethora of incredibly different sounds. So many, in fact, that each individual…
The human voice is capable of forming a plethora of incredibly different sounds. So many, in fact, that each individual…
Languages that evolve at high elevations are more likely to include a sound that’s easier to make when the air is thinner, new…