The evolution of vocabulary

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 127-142

  Smith, Kenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Cultural evolution; Language; Learning bias

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); VOCABULARY;

EID: 1842529341     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2003.12.016     Document Type: Article

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