But Science Doesn't Work That Way: One of the most influential papers on language over the past fifty years has been relying on an intelligent design argument

salthizar · 1 year

Everett? on recursion? http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/everett07/everett07_index.html

salthizar · 1 year

the beginning quote in the article is : “The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”–B. F. Skinner.

salthizar · 1 year

hahah, amazing... just make sure you're systematic about it ;)

GriftyGrifter · 1 year

actually, there's some really interesting work on how different languages manage information differently. for instance, in german, the fact that they have gendered determiners, allows them to have correspondingly more nouns, but fewer adjectives (compared to a language like English).

GriftyGrifter · 1 year

French and Spanish have noun drop, though, which should complicate things. Like, I know in French you can simply say "pass me the red" instead of "pass me the red cup." I don't think there have been any comparative studies done though... I was just browsing through Google scholar.

joshdick · 1 year

prenominal, darlin', not pronominal. for linguists, maybe: "adjective conventions in English aren't optimized for color learning" ;)

salthizar · 2 years

do you know if a pdf is available online?

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