Verbs
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Some scholars have tried to identify patterns common to all languages, but apart from some basic features, like having nouns or
verbs
, few of these so-called linguistic universals have been found.
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As of about six months ago, the state of the art in this field is that you would, for instance, go up to the following psychologist with fabulous hair, and you'd say, "Steve, you're an expert on the irregular
verbs.
But some
verbs
are irregular.
Now what's interesting about that is irregular
verbs
between Alfred and Jay-Z have become more regular.
So Erez and I followed the fate of over 100 irregular
verbs
through 12 centuries of English language, and we saw that there's actually a very simple mathematical pattern that captures this complex historical change, namely, if a verb is 100 times more frequent than another, it regularizes 10 times slower.
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