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comment by OftenBen
OftenBen  ·  3405 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together

    And that wouldn't really be evidence that human brains have inbuilt grammar departments.

I think it would prove though that there are inbuilt elements in the human mind that tend to make grammars develop in similar fashions.