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+title: "Linguistics for Cognitive Science: Assignment 1"
+author: 
+    - Felicia Saar
+    - David-Elias Künstle
+date: \today
+
+documentclass: article
+---
+
+__If a language has fewer consonants, will the consonants that it does have be simpler and easier to articulate?__