Re: Spelling reform for English

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From: Eric Schiller
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:52

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I do wish people would stop claiming linguists ignore written language.
Reading most of the articles from the 1970's and 80s, it is clear that
many linguists, especially Chomsky and Friends, concentrate on constructions
so artificial that they could only be found in written discourse!

There is a big difference between concentrating on text corpora and concentrating
on sentence level grammar. But in fact it is the sentence level grammar of
written language which is more frequently employed than that of the spoken
form, with a few notable exceptions like the late Dwight Bolinger.

In the area of text processing, this bias has led to the most absurd parsings
of words (yes, I mean words) like can't and gonna, and wanna and gimme...

Eric Schiller
University of Chicago

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