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From: ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk (Oliver Sparrow)
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Subject: Re: What's innate?
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It is striking that language has a high redundancy to it: unlike, for example,
computer code or an instructions book, it does not have to be absolutely 
right for one to be able to understand what is said. Thius would, I suggest, 
point towards a set of widely shared, learned models and associations, rather
than at a deep grammar, which I take to be an unbending set of rules as to 
how meaning is to be expressed and transmitted,
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