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Abstract

Some researchers think that the evolution of languages can be understood by treating them like genomes -- but many linguists don't want to hear about it.

@article{marris08theLanguageBarrierNATURE,
  author={Emma Marris},
  title={The Language Barrier},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2008},
  month={May},
  volume={453},
  pages={446-448},
  doi={10.1038/453446a},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/marris08theLanguageBarrierNATURE.html}
}