The Role of Women in Language Change

Linguistic pressures operate on a psychologically and articulaturally, meaning we have certain ways our brains work. And this means that we're going to have commonalities in all languages in the same directions. A good examples of that would be things like syllable structure. English is very promiscuous with its syllables. Many, many languages do not allow those kinds of syllables. But one syllable that all language allows is a consonant vowel syllablelike ma da pa sa.