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NO UNIVERSALS -- A study looking at how different word-order features depend on one another (line thickness indicates connection strength) suggests that Austronesian and Indo-European language families follow different word-order rules. Among four features expected to be strongly correlated (shaded background), only one link showed up in both families.M. Dunn et al/Nature 2011, adapted by E. Feliciano

Languages, like genes, can tell evolutionary tales

1 posted on 11/26/2011 5:48:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

I was thinking about language yesterday (only saw the thread today) and wondered about how the complexity of a language corresponds to the development of a nation. Just wondering.


6 posted on 11/27/2011 5:17:59 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: SunkenCiv

Cunning linguists . . .


8 posted on 11/28/2011 3:36:50 PM PST by colorado tanker
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