Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution: A Darwinian Approach to Language Change

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Language and cultural evolution Linguistics and language evolution Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. The historical perspective 3. Approaching 'language change' 4. The Darwinian approach 5. Generalising Darwinism 6. Towards an evolutionary theory of language 7. What does all this imply for the study of language change? 8. How to live with feet, if one happens to be a morph-meme 9. The prosodic evolution of English word forms or the great trochaic conspiracy 10. Conclusion.

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