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From: jim@epistemi.ed.ac.uk (Jim Scobbie)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: language, thought, and culture
Message-ID: <358@epistemi.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Mar 88 12:30:00 GMT
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Reply-To: jim@epistemi.ed.ac.uk (Jim Scobbie)
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Keywords: thought modalities

In article <5776@dhw68k.cts.com> doug@dhw68k.cts.com (Doug Salot) writes:

> spoken / written language
>is linear (except for some of the formants at the phonetic level).
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woops - punctuation (I said "punctuation") marks embeddding in written
language (underlining, for instance) and though its unfashionable
spoken language appears to encode recursion and embedding too.
(see ladd 1986 Phonology Yearbook 3, Cambridge Uni Press)
-- 
Jim Scobbie:    Centre for Cognitive Science and Department of Linguistics,
		Edinburgh University, 
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