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Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution: A Darwinian Approach to Language Change
Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution A Darwinian Approach to Language Change
Author: Nikolaus Ritt
This new perspective on language change looks at a number of developments in the history of sounds and words and explains them in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Nikolaus Ritt demonstrates how the constituents of language can be regarded as mental patterns, or "memes", which copy themselves from one brain to another when communication and...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521826716
ISBN-10: 0521826713
Publication Date: 7/5/2004
Pages: 342
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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