Adaptive value within natural language discourse

Interaction Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-15

  Best, Michael L ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cultural evolution; Evolution in communication; Population memetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249159105     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.7.1.02bes     Document Type: Article

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