It may not be surprising that all humans today possess a common language core of semantic primes and a more or less universal syntax, since there is substantial evidence that all humans today descended from a common speech-enabled male and female " Homo sapiens " ancestor.
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In effect, the combination of a set of semantic primes each representing a different basic concept, residing in minds with a propensity to acquire certain basic concepts, and a common set of rules for combining those concepts into meaningful messages, constitutes a natural semantic prime language, or natural semantic metalanguage.
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In effect, the combination of a set of semantic primes each representing a different basic concept, residing in minds with a propensity to acquire certain basic concepts, and a common set of rules for combining those concepts into meaningful messages, constitutes a natural semantic prime language, or natural semantic metalanguage.
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Patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type ( DAT ) have been reported to be severely impaired on both lexical and semantic priming tasks, while patients with Huntington's disease ( HD ) were able to demonstrate normal priming ability ( Shimamura et al ., 1987; Salmon et al ., 1988 ).
