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SUBMITTER: Martin A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7521009 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Psychological science 20200813 9
Similarities among the world's languages may be driven by universal features of human cognition or perception. For example, in many languages, complex words are formed by adding suffixes to the ends of simpler words, but adding prefixes is much less common: Why might this be? Previous research suggests this is due to a domain-general perceptual bias: Sequences differing at their ends are perceived as more similar to each other than sequences differing at their beginnings. However, as is typical ...[more]