Re: The Tower of Babel

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jan 18 1997 - 04:46:08 MST

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At 05:41 PM 1/17/97 +1000, Mitch wrote:
>[Mitchell Porter]
>> There is a linguist, Anna Wierzbicka (now working at the Australian
>> Natural University

>That should read "Australian National
>
>Presumably "Natural" crept in from "natural semantic metalanguage"...
>Does anyone have an information-processing model of how such errors
>occur?

Attractors and stacks, no? Cf. Hopfield nets.

Damien Broderick

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