Abstract
Language universals, defined as common features, shared by most or all natural languages of the world, constitute a framework for these languages and are the effect of cognitive-social adaptation processes that occurred along with the evolution of homo sapiens. In order for humans to be able to speak, however, it was necessary for a series of anatomic adaptations to occur. The article focuses on the evolutionary processes that contributed to the development and formation of languages. It also presents the analysis of selected language universals and highlights their use in linguistic disorder therapy. Considering the methodology of logopaedics, typology of speech disturbances, and the course of speech-language therapy the article examines such language universals as: occurrence of vowels, distinctive phone features, “verb – noun” contraposition or word order S-V-O, which is typical of many languages.
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