Study challenges long-held theory that language is built on grammar trees

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Have We Been Wrong About Language for 70 Years? New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory

A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...
The New York Times

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Have We Been Wrong About Language for 70 Years? A New Study That Politely (and Then Not So Politely) Rearranges Linguistics

Because it suggests that our mental representation of language includes things grammar theory has been ignoring for decades.
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