The ingredient of language are words and rules. Words in the sense of memorized links between sound and meaning: rules in the sense of operations that assemble words into combinations whose meaning can be computed from the meaning of the words and the way they are arranged. 2 principles of language are:
Our part of our mind is digital.
Words and rules give rise to the vast expressive power of language, allowing us to share the fruits of the vast creative power of thought.
- A memory system that stores and retrieves words (arbitrary system)
- A system of symbolic computation that generates grammatical combinations of words (infinite use of a finite media).
Our part of our mind is digital.
Words and rules give rise to the vast expressive power of language, allowing us to share the fruits of the vast creative power of thought.