DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmacultural mechanism
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaHockett (1958)
TitoloA Course in Modern Linguistics
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Rinviigenetic mechanism (inglese) 
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[…] The other is the ‘cultural’ mechanism. The acquisition of a habit via the cultural mechanism involves learning, as when a rat learns to run a maze or a child learns a language, but learning alone is not enough to render a habit cultural.
- Hockett (1958), Pag. 579