Re: English syllable structure (was, for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)

Short term memory is not the same thing as "thinking."  We use short term
memory to remember phone numbers while we dial them, to remember the last
seven words someone said so we can put them in context, and to remember
why the hell we went to the kitchen in the first place . . . .

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] Cheng Zhong Su wrote:

>  --- Almaran Dungeonmaster wrote: >
> > Why does word length has anything to do with
> > thinking speed?
> > > Maarten
> Answer:I think this paragraph from linguistic
> encyclopedia will help you understand what is thinking
> speed. P4612FgCodability is a concept that has
> appealed to many experimental psychologists working on
> short-term memory: the quantity of material
> individuals are capable of retaining accurately in
> short-term memory is limited, and different encodings
> of the same information can differ in how readily they
> can be esqueezed in.f An early demonstration of this
> was by S.Smith (cited in Miller 1956), who trained
> subjects to recode a list of binary digits (0s and 1s)
> into octal (the 0 to 7), so 000 is record as 1, 010 as
> 2, etc. Subjects so trained were able to recall
> accurately much longer sequences of binary digits than
> subjects who had not received this training.
> Such a result points to one important general function
> of language in thought: recording material in a
> compact form enables us to retain more of it in
> short-term memory, and any thought processes that
> depend on manipulation of such material should
> benefit. The details of this idea have been worked out
> more fully recently: eworking memoryf is the
> preferred term for manipulations of material on a
> short-term basis, and it has been established that
> immediate recall of verbal material is heavily
> dependent on the operations of an earticulatory
> loopf in working memory, whose capacity is limited by
> how much the subject can say in 1.5-2seconds. If the
> material takes longer than 2 seconds to say (because
> it contains many syllables or because the subject is
> not an agile articulator) then it will not always be
> accurately recalled (for a good review, see Baddeley
> 1986).
> Su Cheng Zhong
>
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