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Language gradualism: changing dialect (deletions) slowly lead to new language (speciation). What could cause punctuated equilibrium version?
@jasonroy Isn't punctuated equilibrium pretty much discredited? Sort of a weak first pass at power law/fractal movement.
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@St_Rev A mutation on a promoter can cause very rapid change. I can't think of something similar for language -
@jasonroy True. Do we *see* that type of behavior among languages? I don't think so. There's stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_cities_vowel_shift … but
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