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Article #3107Re: linguistic dogma
From: Michael Hand
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 04:42
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 04:42
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Mark Israel <misrael@csi.uottawa.ca> wrote: >>> "The relation between words in a language and their meanings is >>> arbitrary"; > > I remember reading that this has been been experimentally >refuted. Subjects were given pairs of antonyms in a language >unrelated to any that they knew, and were asked to match them with >their English translations. They were found to have better-than- >random chances of doing so. **P*L*E*A*S*E** post or send the reference! Thanks, =================================================================== Michael Hand (409)845-5660, fax (409)845-0458 Philosophy Dept, Texas A&M Univ, College Station TX 77843-4237, USA mhand@tamu.edu hand@tam2000.tamu.edu ===================================================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b097,826aa1babacf3c92 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b097,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,826aa1babacf3c92 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-07-12 01:30:39 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!tam2000!hand From: hand@tam2000.tamu.edu (Michael Hand) Newsgroups: sci.lang,bit.listserv.words-l Subject: Re: linguistic dogma Date: 12 Jul 1994 04:42:38 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Lines: 16 Message-ID: <2vt6vu$t7h@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tam2000.tamu.edu