Re: CHAT: Parallelism
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 0:49 |
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Ed Heil wrote:
> anything
> that involves access to stored, pre-made patterns rather than repeated
> computation is preferable as far as the brain is concerned.
Then why do languages tend to lose those suppletions? We've replaced
the old irregular form "kyne" for the regular "cows", for instance.
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