Natural causes of language: Frames, biases, and cultural transmission
What causes a language to be the way it is? Some features are universal, some are inherited, others are borrowed, and yet others are internally innovated. But no matter where a bit of language is from, it will only exist if it has been diffused and kept in circulation through social interaction in t...
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Main Author: | Enfield, N. J. (auth) |
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Language Science Press
2014
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