A rare universal pattern in human languages
A rare universal pattern in human languages
- September 4, 2019
- Richard Futrell, language science, The Atlantic, Sept. 4, 2019
“One of the big divisions in the field of linguistics right now is whether it’s useful to think about language as a code for communication or whether it’s more useful to think about language as something like a mathematical language,” says Richard Futrell, an assistant language-science professor at UC Irvine. This controversy is often described as a fight over whether linguistic universals exist ….
For the full story, please visit https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/people-speak-faster-less-efficient-languages/597391/.
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