> That analysis revealed that legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences — a feature known as “center-embedding.” Linguists have previously found that this kind of structure can make text much more difficult to understand.
Can anyone provide an example sentence from a legal source with center embedding? Multiple examples, ideally?
It is maddening that so much of the article is about this, but they refuse to actually show it to us.
Can anyone provide an example sentence from a legal source with center embedding? Multiple examples, ideally?
It is maddening that so much of the article is about this, but they refuse to actually show it to us.