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., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Language Science Press, 2014.
Series:Conceptual foundations of language science ; 1.
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