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Woman knob twists
By Bruce Bower
June 30th, 2008
Science News
People may perceive a natural order to events that helps to organize language
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We all order in the same way, no matter what language we speak. That neat trick
occurs in the course of daily affairs, not in an Esperanto-only restaurant.
People nonverbally represent all kinds of events in a consistent order that
corresponds to subject-object-verb, even if they speak a language such as
English that uses a different ordering scheme, a new study finds.
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