Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed “linguistic universals”—patterns thought to hold across all languages—are statistically supported when examined with state-of-the-art evolutionary methods.
Enduring patterns in world’s languages: One-third of grammatical ‘universals’ stand up to rigorous testing
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