- A first-of-its-kind study looking at more than 6,000 languages has found that people from around the world tend to use the same sounds to signify common objects and ideas. http://www.sciencealert.com/humans-use-similar-sounds-for-common-words-in-more-than-6-000-languages? 45 comments science
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- http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/09/06/1605782113 29 comments
- A nose by any other name would sound the same, study finds | Cornell Chronicle http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/09/nose-any-other-name-would-sound-same-study-finds 21 comments
- Ferdinand de Saussure - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ferdinand_de_saussure 12 comments
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