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Re: [tlug] Is linguistics OT at all?



Quoth Shawn (Fri 2004-02-13 08:54:42AM +0900):

> >Is linguistics OT at all?  :p
> 
> Couldn't we say that both computer science and linguistics are concerned 
> with collections of elements and thier acceptable orderings (grammar).

We could, and it is no coincidence that many geeks (especially geeks with
formal Computer Science backgrounds) are quite interested in linguistics.
Noam Chomsky is a diety to both linguists and Computer Scientists (and, I
suppose, radical left-wingers ;), after all.

-- 
Josh Glover

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