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200 10$aSelfish sounds and linguistic evolution $ea Darwinian approach to language change /$fNikolaus Ritt
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2004.
215   $a1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and index.
327   $g1.$tIntroduction --$g2.$thistorical perspective --$g3.$tApproaching 'language change' --$g4.$tDarwinian approach --$g5.$tGeneralising Darwinism --$g6.$tTowards an evolutionary theory of language --$g7.$tWhat does all this imply for the study of language change? --$g8.$tHow to live with feet, if one happens to be a morph-meme --$g9.$tprosodic evolution of English word forms or the Great Trochaic Conspiracy --$g10.$tConclusion.
330   $aThis book takes an exciting perspective on language change, by explaining it in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Looking at a number of developments in the history of sounds and words, 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. Memes are both stable in that they transmit faithfully from brain to brain, and active in that their success at replicating depends upon their own properties. Ritt uses this controversial approach to challenge established models of linguistic competence, in which speakers acquire, use, and shape language. In Darwinian terms, language evolution is something that happens to, rather than through, speakers, and the interests of linguistic constituents matter more than those of their human 'hosts'. This book will stimulate debate among evolutionary biologists, cognitive scientists and linguists alike.
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606   $aLinguistic change
606   $aEvolution (Biology)
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615  0$aEvolution (Biology)
615  0$aEnglish language$xPhonology, Historical.
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