Bibliography: Human Language Sonority <> Climate/Environment <> Hearing Sense <> Genes <> Hadaptation ...

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Cross-cultural studies, Theory and Computer Simulation
I am interested to sound (speech sounds/sonority) aspects
of the evolution/hadaptation for human languages
in relation with Geographical/Climate/... Environment aspects... (and
Hearing Sense relations)
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selected references

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Dediu, D. and Ladd, D. R. (2007) Linguistic tone is related to the
population frequency of the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size
genes, ASPM and Microcephalin. PNAS, 104(26):10944--10949.
http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/dediu07linguisticTonePNAS.html
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~s0340638/tonegenes/tonegenessummary.html
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Daniel Nettle
Language and genes: A new perspective on the origins of human cultural
diversity
PNAS 2007 104: 10755-10756; published online before print as 10.1073/
pnas.0704517104
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/extract/104/26/10755?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&minscore=5000&resourcetype=HWCIT
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J. Stephen Lansing, Murray P. Cox, Sean S. Downey, Brandon M. Gabler,
Brian Hallmark, Tatiana M. Karafet, Peter Norquest, John W.
Schoenfelder, Herawati Sudoyo, Joseph C. Watkins, and Michael F.
Hammer
Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern
Indonesia
PNAS 2007 104: 16022-16026; published online before print as 10.1073/
pnas.0704451104
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/41/16022?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&minscore=5000&resourcetype=HWCIT
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Ember CR, Ember M
Climate, econiche, and sexuality: Influences on sonority in language
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 109 (1): 180-185 MAR 2007
http://apps.isiknowledge.com/CEL/CIW.cgi
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Fought JG, Munroe RL, Fought CR, et. al. 2004. "Sonority And Climate
In A World Sample Of Languages: Findings And Prospects." Cross-Cult
Res 38 (1): 27-51 Feb 2004
http://ccr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/1/27?ck=nck
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Morton, E. S. 1975. Ecological sources of selection on avian sounds.
American Naturalist, 109, 17-34.

The acoustic adaptation hypothesis (AAH) assumes that
structural differences between habitats will influence sound
transmission (Morton 1975).
Researchers have hypothesized learned songs allow the development of
more complex songs through cultural interaction, thus allowing
intraspecies dialects that help birds stay with their own kind within
a species, and it allows birds to adapt their songs to different
acoustic environments.
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