On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 03:00 am, Deborah Harrell wrote:
I have heard the name of Noam Chomsky - um, I thought he was a poet...
Anyone who has studied either linguistics or computer science has definitely come across Chomsky. As for his political writings - geniuses are often strange people. There have been Nobel prize winners with very odd/abhorrent ideas outside their own field. (eg William Shockley).
"Book Description: The Minimalist Program consists of
four recent essays that attempt to situate linguistic
theory in the broader cognitive sciences. In these
essays the minimalist approach to linguistic theory is
formulated and progressively developed. Building on
the theory of principles and parameters and, in
particular, on principles of economy of derivation and
representation, the minimalist framework takes
Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational
system, with derivations driven by morphological
properties, to which the syntactic variation of
languages is also restricted. Within this theoretical
framework, linguistic expressions are generated by
optimally efficient derivations that must satisfy the
conditions that hold on interface levels, the only
levels of linguistic representation...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262531283/104-7650737- 8541513
<head jerks up from obfuscationist-babble-induced
near-coma>
That's not obfuscationist babble, that's jargon!
The Chomsky Hierarchy
Regular languages <-> Finite automata Context-free languages <-> Pushdown automata Context-sensitive languages <-> Linear bounded automata Recursively enumerable languages <-> Turing machines
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