Exciting new paper from the CSL Lab by @yngwienielsen.bsky.social and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social showing that we mentally represent abstract non-hierarchical structure during language use.
Here's a short write-up about the paper:
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news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
We can improvise new sentences so readily, language scientists believe, because we have acquired mental representations of the patterns of language that allow us to combine words into sentences.
