Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution : A Darwinian Approach to Language Change by By Nikolaus Ritt

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Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution : A Darwinian Approach to Language Change by By Nikolaus RittISBN: 9780521826716 Cambridge University Press l 02 February 2015 Hardback 342 pages This 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

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