Professor examines convergence of languages, cultures in Chinese Inner Asia
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 07:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When Arienne Dwyer identified an area in Chinese Inner Asia as a language convergence zone some 19 years ago, she discovered that the grammars of unrelated languages had grown to resemble one another. Moreover, when some speakers of these diverse languages come together in song contests, they would harmonize their melodies even faster than their languages.