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Phrases can be infinitely embedded in other phrases.
“The dog killed the cat” is a sentence.
“The dog that killed that cat that killed the rat that killed the fly that ate the grass that ate the dirt that was made of dinosaur dust just had dinner” is also a sentence.
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Animals can create and learn symbols and so their distinction from humans' linguistic abilities is largely a matter of degree. But grammatical principals are secondary.
Can symbols have recursive meaning?
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And voted for Biden over Sanders in 2020*. You should probably include that.
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