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)
Format: eBook
Published: Language Science Press 2014
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