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...Behavioralandbrainsciences doi sxx the myth of language universals diversity and its importance for cognitive science nicholas evans department linguistics research school asian pacic studies australian national university act australia anu edu au http rspas people personal evann ling php stephen c levinson maxplanck institute psycholinguistics wundtlaan nl xd nijmegen netherlands radboud mpi www members stephenlevinson abstract talk linguistic has given scientists impression that languages are all built to a common pattern in fact there vanishingly few direct sense exhibit them instead can be found at almost every level organization this fundamentally changes object enquiry from perspective target article summarizes decades cross work by typologists descriptive linguists showing just how unprofound universal characteristics once we honestly confront offered us world s after surveying various uses illustrate ways vary radically sound meaning syntactic then examine more detail core gram...