Re: linguistic dogma

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1 total messages Started by Michael Hand Tue, 12 Jul 1994 04:42

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Author: Michael Hand
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.

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