Linguistics: An invisible hand

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7163, 2007, Pages 665-667

  Fitch, W Tecumseh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE;

BIOINFORMATICS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA BASE; GENOMICS; GRAMMAR; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CULTURE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 35148841675     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/449665a     Document Type: Short Survey

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