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Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution :[electronic resource].A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	410.9
書名/作者:	Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution : : A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.
作者:	Ritt, Nikolaus.
出版者:	Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2004.
面頁冊數:	343 p.
標題:	Linguistic change.
ISBN:	9780511486449 (electronic bk.)
ISBN:	9780521826716 (print)
內容註:	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
摘要、提要註:	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.
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Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution :[electronic resource].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.

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

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Linguistic change.
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LC Class. No.: P142 .R58 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 410.9

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