Kind of light, but it makes me think of the methodology I adopted for learning Japanese, which was to basically ignore the ordering of things. Don't get me wrong; I speak the words in the right order. It's just that I didn't try to memorize the ordering of things while learning the language. Because, as I think the article points out, your brain is pretty good at figuring that out without trying.
The most helpful thing I think you can do while studying language, other than placing yourself in real world scenarios where you use it, is to just read (or make up) example dialogues. Words by themselves aren't that helpful because they're often out of context. Sentences are better, but even they benefit from being embedded in a larger structure such as a dialogue or paragraph. I guess the point is, the more context, the better. Or, as the article would say, the more merging the better.
The most helpful thing I think you can do while studying language, other than placing yourself in real world scenarios where you use it, is to just read (or make up) example dialogues. Words by themselves aren't that helpful because they're often out of context. Sentences are better, but even they benefit from being embedded in a larger structure such as a dialogue or paragraph. I guess the point is, the more context, the better. Or, as the article would say, the more merging the better.