Results for 'Philosophy of linguistics, linguistic evolution, evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), cultural evolution, developmental bias, constraint, selection, drift'

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  1. What You Can Do for Evolutionary Developmental Linguistics.William Bausman & Marcel Weber - forthcoming - European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
    A growing number of linguistic attempts to explain how languages change use cultural-evolutionary models involving selection or drift. Developmental constraints and biases, which take center stage in evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo, seem to be absent within this framework, even though linguistics is home to numerous notions of constraint. In this paper, we show how these evo-devo concepts could be applied to linguistic change and why they should. This requires (...)
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