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The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs and objects typically appear in languages. Although speakers of different languages ...

This interview of Richard Anderson, chief executive of Delta Air Lines, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What was the most important leadership lesson you learned? A. I’ve learned to be ...

It's widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains.

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Figure 2: Summary of evolutionary dependencies in word order for four language families. Dryer’s study of the Greenberg word-order universals 4 across a world-wide sample of related and unrelated ...