Culture trumps biology in language development, study argues (fwd link)

[Richard Littauer]

For more details, including a link to an quick explanation of the article,
see Simon Greenhill's page
here.<http://simon.net.nz/articles/evolved-structure-of-language-shows-lineage-specific-trends-in-word-order-universals/>

Jess, not everyone is a member of ALT (well, I'm not.) Any chance you could
clue us in?

Richard

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:33 PM, s.t. bischoff <bischoff.st at gmail.com>wrote:

> A similar article appears in Nature News<http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110413/full/news.2011.231.html>...the
> responses from linguists are a little different and some might find them of
> interest. The original article can be found here<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09923.html>
> .
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, jess tauber <phonosemantics at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
>
>> Discussion about this going on at the LINGTYP list.
>>
>> Jess Tauber
>> phonosemantics at earthlink.net
>>
>
>
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