title: Linguistics: evolution and language change.
abstract: Linguists have long identified sound changes that occur in parallel. Now novel research shows how Bayesian modeling can capture complex concerted changes, revealing how evolution of sounds proceeds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, 370 Temple St, Rm 313, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: claire.bowern@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bowern
mesh_terms: D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics