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From: kjh@seas.smu.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Subject: Re: Definiton for NL & NLP
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In article <3e41fl$a6r@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>,
Michael Covington <mcovingt@ai.uga.edu> wrote:
>  (3) duality of patterning (utterances are strings of units that have
>meaning, and each of those units is a string of units [phonemes] that do
>not have meanings);

Do you mean that the individual phonemes don't have meanings?  What
about the phoneme -s at the end of the word in English, to either
indicate plurality or possession?

Do you mean that a string of phonemes doesn't have meaning?  Do you mean
to say that a word only has meaning in a context?  Don't words have a
set of possible meanings, and the specific meaning realized is
determined by the context?

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"Arguing about predestination is virtually irresistible."    --RC Sproul
Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/5           kjh@usc.edu           kjh@seas.smu.edu
