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137: Are Trees Real? (with Yngwie Nielsen and Morten Christiansen) artwork
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137: Are Trees Real? (with Yngwie Nielsen and Morten Christiansen)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. by Daniel Midgley

May 1, 202601:01:49Science & Medicine

What goes on in our minds when we construct an utterance? Linguists often use syntax trees to represent the structure of sentences, but are they psychologically real? Yngwie Nielsen and Dr Morten Christiansen have found...

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137: Are Trees Real? (with Yngwie Nielsen and Morten Christiansen) is an episode from Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. by Daniel Midgley. What goes on in our minds when we construct an utterance? Ling...

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Published May 1, 2026, 01:01:49 long, audio available.