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From: goldberg@russell.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why can't my cat talk?
Message-ID: <568@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 18:04:59 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  1 18:04:59 1987
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Reply-To: goldberg@russell.UUCP (Jeffrey Goldberg)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <1699@pdn.UUCP> alan@pdn.UUCP (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes:

>Many, if not most, human languages encode syntactical structure in
>suffixes, prefixes, infixes or other root modifications and
>transformations.  The more primitive the culture which uses the
>language, the more likely this is to be true.

Do you have any reason to believe this?

>--alan@pdn

-jeff goldberg
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