Re: On the design of an ideal language
| From: | Jackson Moore <jacksonmoore@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 5:31 |
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On May 3, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Jackson Moore wrote:
> On the other hand, maximizing redundancy within a distributional
> category, and minimizing it between them, is a great idea if you
> want to make the grammar itself audible (acoustically salient). As
> natural languages are most definitely not cut out for this task,
> this is a great reason to construct one (it's certainly one of my
> primary motivations).
Sorry, this is ambiguous depending on whether you're talking about
redundant features or redundant distinctions - I meant to say that in
this case you'd want to minimize redundant distinctions (maximize
shared features) within a distributional category and maximize
redundant distinctions (minimize shared features) between them.
At any rate, the inverse relationship of lexical ambiguity and
categorical ambiguity vis-a-vis phonology is interesting.
Jackson
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