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Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness

From:Mark P. Line <mark@...>
Date:Sunday, August 22, 2004, 18:11
Andreas Johansson said:
> Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>: > >> John Cowan said: >> > >> > Well, that itself would be informative: it would bash whatever remains >> > of the Bickerton bioprogram into a bloody pulp. >> >> Absolutely. And it couldn't happen to a nicer bioprogram. > > What's a bioprogram, anyway?
There's a review by Peter Trudgill of Bickerton's 'language bioprogram hypothesis' and some criticisms that have been brought against it: http://www.ida.liu.se/~g-robek/ling_bioprogram.pdf -- Mark