From www.youtube.com - May 24, 2012 3:02 PM

A new study published in Science by Carnegie Mellon University's Charles Kemp and the University of California at Berkeley's Terry Regier shows that kinship categories across languages reflect general principles of communication. The same principles can potentially be applied to other kinds of categories, such as colors and spatial relationships. Ultimately, then, the work may lead to a general theory of how different languages carve the world up into categories.


And... http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/340963/title/Family__labels_framed_similarly_across_cultures