A machine for language Surely not, say the people who associate machines with stolid reliability - language, after all, is the basis for metaphor, up there near the heights of creativity. Machines aren't creative (and if they try, we get them repaired). Surely yes, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their ...

NOVA #2120G: In Search of the First Language Broadcast Transcript PBS Airdate: soft March 18, 1997 ANNOUNCER: Tonight on Nova, for a stranger in a foreign land, language can be an imposing barrier. But there are surprising similarities among the languages of the world. Could it be that at one time long ago, we all spoke the same language JAMES MATISOFF: It's very nice to think about the days ...

Copyright 1995 The New York Times Company The New York Times June 27, 1995, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final Section C; Page 1; Column 4; Science Desk 2309 words Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language By George Johnson IN their archeological digs through the strata of human language, linguists have long been fascinated by the seeming similarities between the English words fist, finger and ...

The Extended Mind: Understanding Language and Thought in Terms of Complexity and Chaos Theory Robert K. Logan Assoc. Prof. of Physics - University of Toronto Short Abstract: The origins of speech and the human mind are shown to have emerged simultaneously as the bifurcation from percepts to concepts. Long Abstract Ideas from dynamic systems theory will be used to address a number of fascinating ...

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