On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 2:29:42 AM UTC-4, la stela selckiku wrote:
I feel like it should be noted that while it's useful to understand this exact algorithm, processing that entire algorithm afresh is of course not how words are produced or understood at conversational speed in normal sentences. The way the rules are enacted at speed is (as with many things in language) through broad fast pattern recognition. The rules produce numerous patterns, each of which gradually become increasingly familiar and then obvious and then reflexive.
That makes sense. But it sounds a lot like what I would expect learning a *natural language*, not so much from a *logical* one.