19.11.2025

C7: New paper in Nature Human Behaviour

A new journal article by Annemarie Verkerk from C7 has been published in Nature Human Behaviour. The paper, titled „Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses“, investigates global linguistic patterns („universals“) using Grambank and Bayesian analyses, finding statistical proof that about a third of the proposed grammatical universals are supported. This suggests that shared cognitive and communicative pressures guide languages toward similar structures rather than random evolution.

You can access the full article here.

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