[lojban] Re: Regular Language

[Graham Morehead <graham.morehead@gmail.com>]

> > (like all other human languages).  
>
> Wait, what?  No.  No human language is context free, they are all
> context sensitive in the chomsky hieararchy, if not actually
> unrestricted.  Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar#Linguistic_applicat...
> for some citations on that issue.
>
> I'm wondering if you didn't mean CFG when you said regular language
> and CSG when you said CFG?

I've seen papers about those examples before.  I still believe human
languages are Context-Free.  The cross-serial dependencies in Swiss
German (and Dutch, I think) and reduplication in Bambara can be
modeled in a CFG if we assume sentences of some given finite length or
less.  No human can understand a sentence of infinite length anyway.

There is evidence that all human knowledge is stored in formations
constructed by context-free graph grammars (e.g.:
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/31/10687.full )

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