IT’s CHUNKING! – And how it shapes the grammars of natural languages
Hubert Haider
November 2024 

[rev.sect.3, typo-reduced, appendix] Chunking is the key for understanding core properties of grammars such as recursion, structure dependence, universal right-branching, binary-branching, shell structures, fillers preceding gaps, V-clustering, or the numerical restriction on argument slots. No recourse to UG required.

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