Linguistics Study Claims That Languages Are Louder in the Tropics
researchers has just published "Demonstrating environmental impacts on the sound structure of languages: challenges and solutions" in Frontiers in Psychology .
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not all languages have the same color terms. If you give speakers of different languages a color spectrum and ask them to label when one color becomes another, they will give different answers
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The model used recordings made before the winterers left to simulate what might happen to their accents as they spent time together. Their prediction was unerringly accurate, even if it did exaggerate the effects compared to what happened in real life. The winterers themselves wouldn't have noticed either as they happened over time. But when the
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