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A linguistic universal is a statement that is true for all natural languages. For example, All languages have nouns and verbs, or All spoken languages have consonants and vowels. Research in this area of linguistics is closely tied to linguistic typology, and intends to reveal information about how the human brain processes language. The field was largely pioneered by the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who from a set of some thirty languages derived a set of basic universals, mostly dealing with syntax.

universal syntax linguistics

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  1. ^ Gbe languages like Ewe and Fon are examples of languages that lack true nasal consonants (see Gbe languages#Nasality in Gbe).
  2. ^ see for example Goddard & Wierzbicka (1994) and Goddard (2002).
  3. ^ Heine (1997)
  4. ^ Rosch et. al. (1976)
  5. ^ Wilkins (1993), Enfield et. al. 2006:17.
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