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At least that was my take home message from a new paper in PLoS One, Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure:
Back at my old digs last week, I put up a post about programming languages and types.
Language researchers have long relied on participants suffering from language disorders as a means to better understand how language develops in healthy people.
Language Log has a fascinating post up, The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe. The distribution of language families, and their relationships, are not arbitrary.