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BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Is Grammar Really Important?

The meanings of the words that we process are modulated by the context that therein. For example, i can say, i threw my water bottle to my brother, or i can say,. i threw my brother my water bottle. But even these very similar grammatical structures have subtle differences. It's almost impossible to find two sentences that have different grammatical structures and mean exactly the same thing.

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