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Social Structure and Language Structure: the New Nomothetic Approach

Psychology of Language and Communication
Volume 16 (2012): Issue 2 (December 2012)
By: Seán Roberts and  James Winters  
Open Access
|Dec 2012

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10057-012-0008-6 | Journal eISSN: 2083-8506 | Journal ISSN: 1234-2238
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Published on: Dec 28, 2012
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Keywords:
nomothetic,
social structure,
complex adaptive systems,
linguistic niche hypothesis,
cultural evolution
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Social sciences,
Psychology,
Applied psychology

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