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Chambers, of the Department of Linguistic Studies at the University of Toronto, in the article on Wilson he contributed to second edition (1988) of The Canadian Encyclopedia , offers this significant comment: “Virtually unaware of the developing science of linguistics, Wilson espoused a more modern view than was then current, giving central importance to mentalism and language universals.”
The language of extraterrestrials merits only passing mention in Lunatic Lovers of Language, which deals with the development of artificial languages and with the search for language universals, characteristics that many (or all) languages share and that lend credence to the notion that there was only one original language from which the present stock has liverged.
(Without going into the matter here, it must be said that universals concern themselves with underlying structures of language, not with superficial correspondences of the type that enable us to identify language families.)