Study challenges long-held theory that language is built on grammar trees
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Every time we speak, we’re improvising. “Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences,” said Morten H. Christiansen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. We can improvise new sentences so readily, language scientists believe, because […]