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Green, T. R. G. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Presents evidence from artificial language experiments in support of the "marker hypothesis," i.e., that natural languages contain elements that signal the presence of syntactic constructions and that the absence of such markers would render a language virtually unusable. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Determiners (Languages), Function Words, Grammar
