Monday, December 26, 2005

Foundations of Human Grammar

Science Daily carried an interesting article on the origin of language, titled New Language Points To Foundations of Human Grammar. A study reported in the article sheds light on some fundamental properties of language in general and the way in which human language develops from the very beginning, which are the very concerns of GLS Language Lab. What the researchers in the study have found indeed is very supportive of, and thus very encouraging to, the research going on in our lab of language system analysis. We post some extracts here.

Language goes beyond a list of words for actions, objects, people, characteristics and so on, to establish systematic relations among those elements. ……word order is one of the first features of a language, and that it appears very early. ……the fixed word order … emerged … within a generation after the inception of the language .

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