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Social Transmission of an Artificial Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Erwin A. Esper
Erwin A. Esper*
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University of Washington
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The most generally assumed ‘cause’ of analogic change has been verbal association (Thumb and Marbe 1901; cf. Kainz 1954:49–53, Stern 1931:199–236). I have presented experimental reasons (Esper 1933) and theoretical reasons (Esper 1935) for regarding such associations rather as results of a more fundamental condition inherent in the nature of the relationships between environmental patterns and response patterns.

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Language , Volume 42 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1966, pp. 575 - 580
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Copyright © 1966 by Linguistic Society of America

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