Why Do We See Similarities Across Languages? The Brain May Be Responsible - Neuroscience News

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Why Do We See Similarities Across Languages? The Brain May Be Responsible - Neuroscience News

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The finding suggests that language universals might be explained, at least in part, by what appears to be the human brain’s innate preference for “short dependencies.”

Interesting in its use of an artificial language to see deeper patterns, patterns that can not be explained by existing languages' similarity. A nice interesting pattern/idea I can use