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So, if there is no innate grammar, why the phrase "large red ball" feels more correct than "red large ball", and in many languages (I can confirm only two)? If this is just a learned relationship between things, the order of the adjectives shouldn't matter. Furthermore, in Czech, words in sentence can be in many different orders (in particular, the ending word is the one that has emphasis), but order of adjectives still matters (or at least some feel right and some wrong). So we can learn and deal with different orderings of words.
parent js8 10 years ago

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