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Ritt, Nikolaus.
Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution : = A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.
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Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution :/
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A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.
Author:
Ritt, Nikolaus.
Published:
Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, : 2004.,
Description:
343 p.
Subject:
Linguistic change. -
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ISBN:
9780511486449 (electronic bk.)
Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution : = A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.
Ritt, Nikolaus.
Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution :
A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2004. - 343 p.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The benefits of language; 1.2 …its shortcomings; 1.3 …and ways of studying it; 2 The historical perspective; 2.1 Evidence of language change; 2.2 Language as a changing object; 3 Approaching ‘language change’; 3.1 Preliminaries; 3.2 Establishing basic assumptions; 3.3 What ‘language change’ must represent; 3.4 Reconstructing a particular ‘phonological change’; 4 The Darwinian approach; 4.1 A linguist’s view of evolutionary biology; 5 Generalising Darwinism; 5.1 The temptations of metaphorical transfer
This book takes an exciting new perspective on language change, by explaining it in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Nikolaus Ritt shows how the constituents of language can be regarded as mental patterns, or 'memes', which copy themselves from one brain to another when communication and language acquisition take place.
Electronic reproduction.
Available via World Wide Web.
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ISBN: 9780511486449 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:
88545
Linguistic change.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:
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LC Class. No.: P142 .R58 2004eb
Dewey Class. No.: 410.9
Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution : = A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.
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5.2 ‘Complex Adaptive Systems’ and ‘Universal Darwinism’5.3 Resume and outlook; 6 Towards an evolutionary theory of language; 6.1 Can there be linguistic replicators at all?; 6.2 What memes might look like: on the material implementation of linguistic replicators; 6.3 Sketching a few language memes; 6.4 From replication to evolution; 6.5 The hows and whys of meme replication; 6.6 Selective pressures in memetic evolution; 6.7 Summary
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