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Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history

Mark Pagel, Quentin D. Atkinson, Andrew Meade

Nature, 2007. DOI 10.1038/nature06176

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 successful. The earliest on record is from 2018.

Replications

• The deep history of the number words, Pagel & Meade (2018). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Outcome recorded: successful. We have previously shown that the 'low limit' number words (from one to five) have exceptionally slow rates of lexical replacement when measured across the Indo-European (IE) languages. Here, we replicate this finding within the Bantu and Austronesian language families, and with new data for the IE languages. Outcome read from the abstract. View paper

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Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q. D., & Meade, A. (2007). Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature, 449(7163), 717–720. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06176

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