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Re: My Three Assertions

From:Sai Emrys <saizai@...>
Date:Friday, February 25, 2005, 2:47
Mike Ellis:

> It's great stuff for speculation, but my point was that studying/speculating > on this kind of speech system wouldn't give insight on how humans process > the world, because there aren't any who actually speak this way.
Have you looked at any psych experiments lately? Many of them are filled with completely bizarre tasks that humans would never actually do... but which reveal interesting things about how we think at one level or another. So regardless of whether you think it's "natural" or not (I'm not touching that one), it could still "give insight on how humans process the world". Perhaps debatable about how we normally process *language*, but those aren't the same thing. - Sai