Syntax, Psychology of

Syntax is an area of linguistic theory that attempts to understand how larger compositional objects, like phrases and sentences, are put together from smaller, memorized pieces, like words. Most narrowly, it is responsible for explaining both why words occur in the orders and forms they do and how ...

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