Frequency of word use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history
Greek speakers say 'oυρά', Germans 'schwanz', and the French 'queue' to describe what English speakers call a 'tail', but all of these languages use a related form of 'two' to describe the number after one. Among over one hundred Indo-European langua...
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Nature Publishing Group
2007
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