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  "path": "/the-end-of-language-as-we-know-it-scientists-challenge-60-years-of-linguistic-research/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T18:13:45.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Science",
    "Cognitive Science",
    "Communication",
    "Language",
    "Linguistics",
    "Max Planck Institute"
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  "textContent": "An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system. For more than sixty years, Charles Hockett’s ‘design features’ have been widely used as a framework for defining what distinguishes human language from other forms of communication. These features were long treated as a [...]",
  "title": "The End of Language As We Know It? Scientists Challenge 60 Years of Linguistic Research"
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