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Australian languages reconsidered: a review of Dixon (2002)
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In: Oceanic Linguistics (2015)
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Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes
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In: Linguistic Typology (2015)
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Proto-Gunwinyguan verb suffixes
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In: http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/552.html (2015)
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Typologies of agreement: some problems from Kayardild
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In: Transactions of the Philological Society ; http://www.philsoc.org.uk/transactions.asp (2015)
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Some distinctive characteristics of the vocabulary of Australian languages
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In: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/skMbwEn.cfm?rc=16340 (2015)
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Some distinctive characteristics of the vocabulary of Australian languages
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In: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/skMbwEn.cfm?rc=16340 (2015)
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Anything Can Happen: The Verb Lexicon and Interdisciplinary Fieldwork
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Context, culture and structuration in the languages of Australia
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In: Annual Review of Anthropology (2015)
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Proto-Gunwinyguan verb suffixes
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Anything Can Happen: The Verb Lexicon and Interdisciplinary Fieldwork
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Australian languages reconsidered: a review of Dixon (2002)
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Context, culture and structuration in the languages of Australia
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With diversity in mind: Freeing the language sciences from Universal Grammar
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In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2015)
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Typologies of agreement: some problems from Kayardild
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In: Transactions of the Philological Society ; http://www.philsoc.org.uk/transactions.asp (2015)
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The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
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In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2015)
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Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the direct sense that all languages exhibit them. Instead, diversity can be found at almost every level of linguistic organization. This fundamentally changes the object of enquiry from a cognitive science perspective. This target article summarizes decades of cross-linguistic work by typologists and descriptive linguists, showing just how few and unprofound the universal characteristics of language are, once we honestly confront the diversity offered to us by the world's 6,000 to 8,000 languages. After surveying the various uses of universal, we illustrate the ways languages vary radically in sound, meaning, and syntactic organization, and then we examine in more detail the core grammatical machinery of recursion, constituency, and grammatical relations. Although there are significant recurrent patterns in organization, these are better explained as stable engineering solutions satisfying multiple design constraints, reflecting both cultural-historical factors and the constraints of human cognition. Linguistic diversity then becomes the crucial datum for cognitive science: we are the only species with a communication system that is fundamentally variable at all levels. Recognizing the true extent of structural diversity in human language opens up exciting new research directions for cognitive scientists, offering thousands of different natural experiments given by different languages, with new opportunities for dialogue with biological paradigms concerned with change and diversity, and confronting us with the extraordinary plasticity of the highest human skills.
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon
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In: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences (2015)
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon
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In: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences (2015)
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