Grammatical cues to subjecthood are redundant in a majority of simple clauses across languages

Kyle Mahowald, Evgeniia Diachek, Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko, Richard Futrell

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Publication Date: 2023-09-13

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105543

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