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Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

From:Gerald Koenig <jlk@...>
Date:Thursday, March 18, 1999, 18:58
From: Edward Heil" <edheil@...>"
> >I've been thinking about this, and while at first I thought of these >RPN-ish grammars as dreadfully unnatural, they seem to be variations on >the following theme: > >As symbols come in through your ears, you're sitting there building >conceptions. You try to fuse the meanings of those symbols together as >they come in. Sometimes a given meaning has several possible places >where other meanings could fit into it -- multivalent verbs are examples >of this. That's where you need things like case marking, morphological >or syntactic. > >It strikes me that natlangs are probably nothing more than examples of >this process, optimized according to parameters we don't understand to >maximize communicative value and ease of use. >
Hi, You might be interested in this URL I found which is part of the big field of human memory as related to information processing. http://matrix.psych.ualberta.ca/%7emike/Pearl_Street/OSHERSON/Vol3/Jonides.3.7.html Gerald Koenig
> >>From: charles" <catty@...>" >> >>On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Denis Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> Much of what has been discussed in this thread is reminiscent of what >>> I'm doing with Rikchik >("http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmm/rikchik/intro.html"). >>> Rikchik words include a collector that says how many previous words >>> are popped off the stack, and each word includes a relation that >specifies >>> how it relates to the word that collects it.