Among the selection criteria for the new polyurethane were that the material exhibited a combination of good wear characteristics and mechanical properties, was easy to handle, and provided for fast, easy alteration and repair of polyurethane as well as metal patterns.
A linguistic universal is a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages, potentially true for all of them. For example, All languages have nouns and verbs, or If a language is spoken, it has consonants and vowels.
View Full Document. 1  The cognitive universalism theory states that: a. all languages are similar in certain universal ways. b. concepts are universal and infuence the development oF language. c. thought processes and concepts are controlled by language. d. all languages have the same pragmatics.