Friday, April 15, 2011

Palmer, Jason. "Language Universality Idea Tested With Biology Method." BBC NEWS April 15, 2011.

A long-standing idea that human languages share universal features that are dictated by human brain structure has been cast into doubt. A study reported in Nature has borrowed methods from evolutionary biology to trace the development of grammar in several language families. The results suggest that features shared across language families evolved independently in each lineage. The authors say cultural evolution, not the brain, drives language development. . . .
Read the rest here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13049700.

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