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Remarkable is the rapidity of the motion of the wing of the hummingbird Sentences can also branch to the left. Left-branching trees are most common in head-last languages like Japanese but are found in a few constructions in English, too. As before, the parser never has to keep more than one dangling branch in mind at a time: The hummingbird’s wing’s motion’s rapidity is remarkable
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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