Understanding the origins of morphological diversity: The linguistic niche hypothesis

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages

  Dale, Rick ^a   Lupyan, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based simulation; Language change; morphology; social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861874352     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525911500172     Document Type: Article

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