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Ritt, Nikolaus.

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Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution : = A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution :/
Reminder of title:	A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.
Author:	Ritt, Nikolaus.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, : 2004.,
Description:	343 p.
[NT 15003449]:	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
[NT 15003449]:	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
Subject:	Linguistic change. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486449Click here to view book
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.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780511486449 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

535072
Linguistic change.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P142 .R58 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 410.9

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