Love this work. I would just add: lexical semantics obscures lexical syntax. Words > pseudo words does not necessarily mean word meanings are driving the effect. https://t.co/0oaylrHYKB
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Thanks! Good to see lively debate including work by @ev_fedorenko. Because we co-evolved, w/ our Language Learning Organ, a Semantic Construction Organ (maybe huge contributor to neocortical expansion) language is ~ everywhere. All mammals do SemCon, but
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This is something @wmatchin has very forcefully argued in this paper, which I haven’t seen a response to. https://t.co/j8JTxBu7vp
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RT @ElliotMurphy91: Excellent paper making a frustratingly underappreciated point: Lexical items don't just have meanings; they also host s…