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are diffused across an area by contacts among adults. Languages branch into dialects and thence into related languages through small changes in the course of children's learning processes which accumulate over generations, and when speech communities do not communicate (frequently) with each other, these cumulative changes diverge. Diffusion of areal features for the most part hinges on low-level phonetic shifts, whereas tree-model transmission includes in addition structural factors such as "grammatical conditioning, word boundaries, and the systemic relations that drive chain shifting".
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in 2007 reconciled the tree and wave models in a general framework based on differences between children and adults in their language learning ability. Adults do not preserve structural features with sufficient regularity to establish a norm in their community, but children do. Linguistic features
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using "be" + past participle for intransitive and reflexive verbs (with participle agreement), present in French, Italian, German, older Spanish and Portuguese, and possibly even English, in phrases like "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" and "The kingdom of this world is
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Resemblances between two or more languages (whether in typology or in vocabulary) have been observed to result from several mechanisms, including lingual genealogical relation (descent from a common ancestor language, not principally related to biological genetics);
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when a population adopts a new language; and chance coincidence. When little or no direct documentation of ancestor languages is available, determining whether the similarity is genetic or merely areal can be difficult.
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notably used evidence of contact and diffusion as a negative tool for genetic reconstruction, treating it as a subject in its own right only at the end of his career (e.g., for the influence of
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In some areas with high linguistic diversity, a number of areal features have spread across a set of languages to form a
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The tendency in much of Europe to use a transitive verb (e.g. "I have") for possession, rather than a
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using "have" + past participle in many European languages (Romance, Germanic, etc.). (The Latin
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in a geographic area, particularly when such features are not descended from a
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used for this and the previous point are not in fact etymologically related.)
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in several languages of Southern Africa, including a few Bantu languages
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from either German or French to several Northern European languages.
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of language change, and areal relationships are represented in the
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Areal features

verification
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adding citations to reliable sources
"Areal feature"
news
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books
scholar
JSTOR
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geolinguistics
dialects
proto-language
lingual-genealogically
language family
sprachbund
family tree model
wave model
borrowing
retention of features
Edward Sapir
Tibetan
Tocharian
William Labov
sprachbund
Balkan sprachbund
Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area
Indian subcontinent

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