The new technique could assist with automated translation, as well as unpicking a language's evolutionary progress.

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Furthermore, this type of evolutionary progress will be hard for studies that compare the performance of any existing schools to capture.

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Do we think that progress requires a central blueprint, or do we see it as a decentralized, evolutionary process?

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