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Introduction

Language is a culturally transmitted system -- children learn the language of their speech community on the basis of the linguistic behavior of that community. This cultural transmission can lead to the cultural evolution of the linguistic system, whereby language changes over time as a consequence of pressures acting on it during its cultural transmission.

Cultural evolution potentially offers an explanation for the origins of a linguistic system with the design features and functionality of human language, as well as an explanation for the subsequent change of such systems -- the processes that explain the ways in which languages change on a historical timescale can also explain how languages themselves emerged.
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@incollection{ksmith06culturalEvolutionOfLanguageENCYCLOPEDIA,
  author={Kenny Smith},
  title={Cultural evolution of language},
  year={2006},
  pages={315-322},
  editor={K. Brown},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  booktitle={The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition)},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/ksmith06culturalEvolutionOfLanguageENCYCLOPEDIA.html}
}

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