An experimental study of social selection and frequency of interaction in linguistic diversity

Interaction Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 138-159

  Roberts, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Cultural evolution; Experimental; Historical linguistics; Language change; Sociolinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047682461     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.11.1.06rob     Document Type: Article

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