Nature human behaviour
Evidence for the representation of non-hierarchical structures in language.
Yngwie A Nielsen, Morten H Christiansen
Published: 202610.1038/s41562-025-02387-z
Abstract
A long-standing assumption in the language sciences is that the mental representation of language is based on constituents-that is, hierarchical structures rooted in grammar. We provide evidence from English for a more basic kind of linguistic repres…
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