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Download full textJackendoff, Ray; Birner, Betty, Ed. – 1999
This brochure discusses, in lay terms, how computers process language and why they may have difficulty in processing English. The brochure points out that English is a more difficult language to process than most people think, and that the brain is far more complex than the computer in its ability to decipher meaning. The examples of the word…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Role
Birner, Betty, Ed. – 1999
This brochure discusses, in lay terms, the degree to which language shapes thought. The first section describes briefly the questions that linguists have addressed in studying this issue, including how things such as location or time may be conceptualized differently in different language groups, offering examples from other languages in addition…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Processing, Interlanguage, Language Processing
