The Horse Raced Past the Barn Fell: Parsing Garden-Path Sentences
Read this sentence: "The horse raced past the barn fell." If you had to read it twice, your brain just fell for a classic "garden-path" sentence, a grammatical illusion designed…
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The World in a Different Order: How Subject-Object-Verb Languages Challenge Our Linguistic Assumptions
For most English speakers, "The dog chased the cat" is the only logical way to say it. But what if we told you that for over half the world, the…