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A study looking at how different word-order features depend on one another (line thickness indicates connection strength) suggests that Austronesian and Indo-European language families follow different word-order rules. Among four features expected to be strongly correlated (shaded background), only one link showed up in both families. Credit: M. Dunn et al/Nature 2011, adapted by E. Feliciano

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