User:Skakkle/center embedding

center-embedded
worse than non-natural, these phrases are just some computational exercise performed by some nerd in a class room. whatever theory is at work, may be fine and valid. But since you are not doing observational linguistics, you're doing math. that's not my jam.


 * A man that a woman loves
 * A man that a woman that a child knows loves
 * A man that a woman that a child that a bird saw knows loves
 * A man that a woman that a child that a bird that I heard saw knows loves

propositions naturalized as much as possible. the longer they get, the less plausible they are as natural statements. Repeated indefinite articles reduce narrative coherence.


 * A woman loves a man
 * A child knows a woman who loves a man
 * A bird saw a child that knows a woman who loves a man
 * I heard a bird that saw a child who knows a woman who loves a man