In many languages across the world, speakers use intonation to focus on relevant information: ‘Father cooked the sauce’. Speakers may also use a specific sentence structure to mark focus: ‘It was ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 32 (August 9, 2022), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and ...