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A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding ...

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...