Today I would like to share a recent scientific discovery that provides evidence for a semantic parallelism between languages.
The Lexical Semantic's Universal Structure
Maybe it’s not so difficult to adapt
ourselves to new languages because, we are all humans, and that makes languages
highly similar. All we need to express the same things, although we use
different words.
Youn, H. et al had published a surprising
scientific result, they had empirically demonstrated that there is
a universal structure of human lexical semantics.
What does this mean?
Semantic network is highly structured:
structural semantic are consistent across different language groups, and
largely independent of geography, environment, and the presence or absence of a
literary tradition.
There is a universal attribute of human
cognition and language use and the reason is that the way concepts are
organized in the human brain reflect properties universal to human cognition.
They state:
“Semantics, or meaning expressed through
language, provides indirect access to an underlying level of conceptual
structure. We provide an empirical measure of semantic relatedness between
concepts”.
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