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Our brain hates tough grammar
Ever wondered why you are not good at adapting Sanskrit but find learning Hindi a comparatively easy task? Blame your brain as it always opts for an easy route, say scientists.The grammar of languages keeps reorganising itself. A prime example of this is the omission of case endings in the transition from Latin to Italian.
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London: Ever wondered why you are not good at adapting Sanskrit but find learning Hindi a comparatively easy task? Blame your brain as it always opts for an easy route, say scientists.The grammar of languages keeps reorganising itself. A prime example of this is the omission of case endings in the transition from Latin to Italian.
In some instances, case systems are remodelled entirely - such as in the transition from Sanskrit to Hindi which has completely new grammatical cases. After conducting statistical analyses of the case systems in more than 600 languages and recording the changes over time, an international team of researchers found that the brain activity is stronger for complex case constructions than for simple ones.
In other words, biological processes are instrumental in grammatical changes. For the study, the team tested the adaptations in participants, measuring the brain flows that become active during language comprehension. The team finally demonstrated that brain looks for easy-to-comprehend case constructions.
