Natural causes of language
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Description
Contents
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Language
English
ISBN
978-3-944675-50-3
Acknowledgements
Preface
Causal units
How we represent language change
Linguistic systems
Linguistic items
Thinking causally about language change
The problem with tree diagrams
Causal frames
Distinct frames and forces
MOPEDS: A basic-level set of causal frames
Microgenetic (action processing)
Ontogenetic (biography)
Phylogenetic (biological evolution)
Enchronic (social interactional)
Diachronic (social/cultural history)
Synchronic (representation of relations)
Interrelatedness of the frames
The case of Zipf's length-frequency rule
Transmission biases
Cultural epidemiology
Biased transmission
Some known biases
A scheme for grounding the biases
Exposure
Representation
Reproduction
Material
Networks
Causal anatomy of transmission
The item/system problem
A transmission criterion
Defining properties of systems
Relations between relations
More complex systems
Are cultural totalities illusory?
The micro/macro solution
The combinatoric nature of cultural items in general
Solving the item/system problem in language
Centripetal and systematizing forces
On normal transmission
Sociometric closure
Trade-off effects
Item-utterance fit, aka content-frame fit
A solution to the item/system problem?
Conclusion
Natural causes of language
Toward a framework
Bibliography
Index
Name index
Subject index
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