linguistic universal

• Propiedad, regularidad o rasgo que se encuentra en todas las lenguas humanas conocidas, lo que sugiere un aspecto fundamental de la cognición o la comunicación humanas.

A property, pattern, or feature that is found across all known human languages, suggesting a fundamental aspect of human cognition or communication.

1. Universal property of languageC1formal

   A pattern or feature that is found across all known human languages, often considered a fundamental aspect of human cognition.

   universal lingüístico

   • The existence of nouns and verbs is considered a linguistic universal.
   • Linguists study linguistic universals to understand the innate structure of language.
   • One linguistic universal is that all languages have a way to distinguish between questions and statements.