Languages less arbitrary than long assumed

LANGUAGE STUDY

This article about languages includes the research of Morten Christiansen, psychology professor and co-director of Cornell's Cognitive Science Program.  He is a co-author of new research finding that language is less arbitrary than assumed: the sounds and shapes of words can reveal aspects of meaning and grammatical function.

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