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Understanding Mental Grammar by mafistov is a document available to read on EtoBox.
What is Understanding Mental Grammar about?
The document discusses evidence for a mental grammar and categories in language. It provides evidence that humans have an innate ability to acquire complex grammars from a young age with little instruction. Substitution tests show that words can be grouped into categories like nouns and verbs based on their distribution and substitutability. Phrasal categories like noun phrases can also be identified through substitution without changing a sentence
- Author
- mafistov
- Language
- EN