Bluesky really chose the best frame for the the thumbnail

however, psycholinguistic and corpus studies¹ (studying huge language datasets) show that up to 60% of human speech is made up of prefabricated 'chunks' (sequences of words that always appear together like "take a look", "end of the day" etc).

the problem with grammar study is that the brain does not construct sentences using textbook grammar rules—language exists in our heads as networks of associations between 'chunks', and the patterns documented in textbooks emerge from those associations

🧵 here's what I mean:

thank you to whoever was my first subscriber was!

in the 50yrs since Krashen's research on lang. acquisition, a lot has happened in the field of linguistics

in my first youtube video, i talk about a new theory of how language is represented in the brain, and why we now know how comprehensible input works.

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