From: Noam Chomsky
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2015 12:54 PM
To: jeffrey E.
Subject: RE: Re:
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There is a view that language is essentially a processing system. The arguments against it seem to me very power. I'll
attach a recent paper about it, a contribution to a volume of essays dedicated to Jerry Fodor and focusing on his
conception of language as processing (input modules). His version is far more sophisticated than the signal processing
approaches that were all the rage in the 1950s, drawing from the successes of wartime technology in signal analysis and
Shannon's information theory.
Noam
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.comj
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 7:34 AM
To: Noam Chomsky
Subject: Re: Re:
can it be thought of as no more than signal processing. why not use the same technology that attempts to intercept
communications and decode the signals and apply it to language. normally one tries to process the signals. i wonder if
they put it in reverse. and processed the language in an attempt to find coherence.???
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Noam Chomsky a» wrote:
There is a notion of coherence in both cases, but how to unify them, or whether it's possible, I don't really see.
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com> ]
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 1:33 PM
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what i have been calling my sense making module. . visual sense, is the image coherent. / ? why dont you
ask your young friends what they think the chomsky questions should be. I will provide the reward
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Noam Chomsky > wrote:
Marr's group, as you know, studied edges, rigidity, etc. Those particular phenomena don't seem
relevant to language, except indirectly (as Marr and I in fact discussed often): there must be built-in systems that enter
into language processing (including determining grammatical status -- "legitimacy" — one property among many). That's
what work on UG should be about.
Noam
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com <mailtcyjeevacation@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 12:59 PM
To: Noam Chomsky
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I hope you have fun at the institute. I am in santa fe. . you and i have discussed vision and edges etc
rigidity etc. auto focus on a camera looks for the most contrast . is there an equivalent . first step to intuit whether a
sentence is legitimate ?
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