From: Mitchell Porter (mitch@thehub.com.au)
Date: Fri Jan 17 1997 - 00:41:40 MST
[Mitchell Porter]
> There is a linguist, Anna Wierzbicka (now working at the Australian
> Natural University, http://www.anu.edu.au), whose main project is to
> find a so-called "natural semantic metalanguage".
That should read "Australian National University"!
Presumably "Natural" crept in from "natural semantic metalanguage"...
Does anyone have an information-processing model of how such errors
occur? It's as if there's a number of words or symbols active
in the mind at any time, brought forward for a variety of tasks
(composing a sentence, in short-term memory,...), and sometimes
a word will be put to use in the wrong task. How would that happen?
(Or perhaps the alternative question is better: How do we manage
to usually use appropriate words?)
> I'll have a page on the NSM at the URL below shortly.
>
> -mitch
> http://www.thehub.com.au/~mitch/ling/nsm.html
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