linguistic universal

• Propriété, régularité ou trait commun à toutes les langues humaines connues, reflétant un aspect fondamental de la cognition ou de la communication humaine.

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 linguistique

   • 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.