Re: Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

Straws to the wind, I suppose. As you know, every fad
in every discipline gets transferred to every other
discipline --so why not Chaos Theory, Nomadology,
De-Con, etc.
There is a point but it's observable through common
sense. Write an article and reinvent the wheel and
you'll get tenure.


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> From: mkelkar2003
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:45 PM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Languages
> Evolve in Punctuational
> Bursts
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/319/5863/588

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http://henry.simon.net.nz/stories/2008/02/01/punctuated-equilibrium-and-

> the-evolution-of-languages/
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> http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bowern/Mypapers/Punceq.pdf
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> What is the relevance of these people
> who are not even linguists ?
>
> Arnaud
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