The consequences of talking to strangers: Evolutionary corollaries of socio-cultural influences on linguistic form

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 543-578

  Wray, Alison ^a   Grace, George W ^a  

^a Department of Linguistics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Esoteric; Formulaic language; Language evolution; Language processing; Literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845198719     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

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