Friday, January 22, 2010

Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure, Says Penn Psychology Study


Filed under: Historical linguistics

Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why languages differ throughout the world. The study argues that human languages may adapt more like biological organisms than previously thought and that the more common and popular the language, the simpler its construction to facilitate its survival.

Full article: University of Pennsylvania


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