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  2. Right-branching sentences in English - Wikipedia

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    grammar, a right-branching sentence is a sentence in which the main subject of the sentence is described first, and is followed by a sequence of modifiers that provide additional information about the subject. The inverse would be a Left-branching sentence. The name "right-branching" comes from the English syntax of putting such modifiers to ...

  3. Branching (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The direction of branching reflects the position of heads in phrases, and in this regard, right-branching structures are head-initial, whereas left-branching structures are head-final. [2] English has both right-branching (head-initial) and left-branching (head-final) structures, although it is more right-branching than left-branching. [3]

  4. List of branches of psychology - Wikipedia

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    List of branches of psychology. 5 languages. ... This non-exhaustive list contains many of the sub-fields within the field of psychology: Abnormal psychology;

  5. Mentalism (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, mentalism refers to those branches of study that concentrate on perception and thought processes, for example: mental imagery, consciousness and cognition, as in cognitive psychology. The term mentalism has been used primarily by behaviorists who believe that scientific psychology should focus on the structure of causal ...

  6. Head-directionality parameter - Wikipedia

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    Turkish is an agglutinative, head-final, and left-branching language that uses a SOV word order. [21] As such, Turkish complements and adjuncts typically precede their head under neutral prosody, and adpositions are postpositional. Turkish employs a case marking system [22] which affixes to the right boundary of the word it is modifying. As ...

  7. Lateralization of brain function - Wikipedia

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    The concept of "right-brained" or "left-brained" individuals is considered a widespread myth which oversimplifies the true nature of the brain's cerebral hemispheres (for a recent counter position, though, see below). Proof leading to the "mythbuster" of the left-/right-brained concept is increasing as more and more studies are brought to light.

  8. Talk:Branching (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    No, it says word for word "practically a model for rigidly left-branching languages", though it is not necessarily. Japanese is largely left-branching(essentially the modifier precedes the modified, objects appear before verbs, etc.), though its nouns precede the numeral, which is a characteristic of right-branching languages.

  9. Merge (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    avoid non-branching dominance by using as much structure as possible to model constituency; avoid positing optional phrase structure rules; avoid redundant labelling to ensure phrases share the category of their heads; avoid creating a theory that is distinct from X-bar theory; distinguish X max from XP; distinguish the highest projection from ...