Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals
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2011
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Dunn, Michael
Greenhill, Simon
Levinson, Stephen C.
Gray, Russell
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Macmillan Publishers Ltd
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Languages vary widely but not without limit. The central goal of linguistics is to describe the diversity of human languages and explain the constraints on that diversity. Generative linguists following Chomsky have claimed that linguistic diversity must
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Keywords: evolutionary theory; language; learning; phylogenetics; article; cultural anthropology; human; language development; linguistics; phylogeny; priority journal; Biological Evolution; Cultural Evolution; Humans; Language; Linguistics; Phylogeny
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