everyone! So, I've been trying to fit a LMER for my data, which I fully described [in this post][1] . This post, therefore, is a follow-up from the previous one. There's something intriguing me, I don't get any errors when I run this ANOVA: ``` aov(SCORE ~ LANGUAGE * YEAR + Error(SUBJECT/LANGUAGE * YEAR), data = data) ``` but I'm getting the boundary error (specifically for the language variable) in this model: ``` lmer(SCORE ~ (YEAR * LANGUAGE | SUBJECT), data = data boundary (singular) fit: see help('isSingular') or lmer(SCORE ~ LANGUAGE * YEAR + (YEAR | SUBJECT) + (LANGUAGE|SUBJECT), data = data boundary (singular) fit: see help('isSingular') ``` As far as I'm concerned, this lmer should resseamble the repeated measures ANOVA I've ran before, so why do I get an error for the model, but not for the Anova? Any thoughts on it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! [1]: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/586633/fitting-a-lmer-with-longitudinal-data-for-2-categorical-predictors