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Cross-Linguistic Patterns in Language and Culture
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Which of the following is an example of a linguistic universal?
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All languages have nouns and verbs.
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The existence of nouns and verbs is a universal feature of human language. All languages have words that refer to objects (nouns) and words that refer to actions or states (verbs).