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Why is binarity emphasized so much in linguistics?
{a} + {b} -> {a, b} + {c} -> {a, b, c} seems much more complicated to me than {a} + {b} + {c} -> {a, b, c}
Complexity and difficulty are different problems. A recursive algorithm may have a ...
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Why is binarity emphasized so much in linguistics?
Binarity is favored over alternatives by general scientific logic, therefor to the extent that a linguist is concerned with scientific logic, that is the expcted tendency. However the specific details ...
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