Michael Dunn

Summary

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Country: The Netherlands

Publications

  1. ncbi Structural phylogenetics and the reconstruction of ancient language history
    Michael Dunn
    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Post Office Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, Netherlands
    Science 309:2072-5. 2005
  2. ncbi Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals
    Michael Dunn
    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Post Office Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Nature 473:79-82. 2011
  3. ncbi Kin term diversity is the result of multilevel, historical processes
    Fiona M Jordan
    Evolutionary Processes in Language and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, PB310, 6500AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands www mpi nl people jordan fiona www mpi nl people dunn michael
    Behav Brain Sci 33:388. 2010

Detail Information

Publications3

  1. ncbi Structural phylogenetics and the reconstruction of ancient language history
    Michael Dunn
    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Post Office Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, Netherlands
    Science 309:2072-5. 2005
    ..The most plausible hypothesis to explain this result is the divergence of the Papuan languages from a common ancestral stock, as part of late Pleistocene dispersals...
  2. ncbi Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals
    Michael Dunn
    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Post Office Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Nature 473:79-82. 2011
    ..These findings support the view that-at least with respect to word order-cultural evolution is the primary factor that determines linguistic structure, with the current state of a linguistic system shaping and constraining future states...
  3. ncbi Kin term diversity is the result of multilevel, historical processes
    Fiona M Jordan
    Evolutionary Processes in Language and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, PB310, 6500AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands www mpi nl people jordan fiona www mpi nl people dunn michael
    Behav Brain Sci 33:388. 2010
    ..We argue that his framework can more usefully be applied at the levels of developmental and historical change, the latter especially. A phylogenetic approach to the diversity of kinship terminologies is most urgently required...