A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...
A new world atlas of colonial-era languages reveals massive traces of African and Pacific source languages. A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from ...
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Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed “linguistic universals” — patterns ...
Vol. 20, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Language Acquisition in Bilingual and Atypical Populations: Focus on Developmental Comparisons (April–June 2013), pp. 133-154 (22 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, ...
The European starling -- long known as a virtuoso songbird and as an expert mimic too -- may also soon gain a reputation as something of a "grammar-marm." This three-ounce bird, new research shows, ...
Mastering English grammar often determines the difference between mediocre and exceptional communication. While traditional methods emphasise rote memorisation of countless rules, modern language ...
A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific has been published by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...
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