For more details, including a link to an quick explanation of the article, see Simon Greenhill's page <a href="http://simon.net.nz/articles/evolved-structure-of-language-shows-lineage-specific-trends-in-word-order-universals/">here.</a><br>
<br>Jess, not everyone is a member of ALT (well, I'm not.) Any chance you could clue us in?<br><br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:33 PM, s.t. bischoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://bischoff.st">bischoff.st</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">A similar article appears in <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110413/full/news.2011.231.html" target="_blank">Nature News</a>...the responses from linguists are a little different and some might find them of interest. The original article can be found <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09923.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, jess tauber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phonosemantics@earthlink.net" target="_blank">phonosemantics@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Discussion about this going on at the LINGTYP list.<br>
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