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Does the lack of tonsils make pronouncing french sounds harder?

No, the tonsils aren't involved in the production of a voiced uvular fricative (what is the linguistic term for the French r). So, even without tonsils most people can produce this sound. Tonsil ...
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Is it possible to have a repeated node appear under the same node? (Syntax Tree) [illustration provided]

If you really want a new node type, you would need to let toujours select the SV. Toujours les musées is uninterpretable, because toujours requires an event to be repeated, and les musées does not ...
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Is it possible to have a repeated node appear under the same node? (Syntax Tree) [illustration provided]

While I don't speak French, most styles of generative syntax (the sort you seem to be doing here) do allow for this sort of "repetition". When you attach a complement to a node (using the &...
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