Re: LOGO-L> Language vs Visual

[Jeff <jeffr@mugc.cc.monash.edu.au>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Sergei V. Mariev wrote:
> ASCII code, etc... In the sixties and later on  there were even attempts to
> demonstrate that any language has essentially binary structure. I mean the
> Transformational Grammar Theory by Noam Chomsky. (Now it is so called
> Government and Binding Theory). Chomsky tried to prove that any sentence
> has essentially binary structure.
It's important to note that this attempt failed. Like some of Chomsky's 
other intriguing speculations, it's not falsifiable, or provable.
BTW, the Royal Navy earliar this week formally did away with the last of 
its Morse siganalling lights on the fleet...

Jeff
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