Published on 19 April 2012
I’m studying for my Foundations exam. I had some stray thoughts that might be worth sharing, and that’ll help me remember things.
missed is a homophone to mist. I should write a poem about that. Why? Because mist is one of my favourite things, and staring into it, a lot of things are arbitrarily called to the mind. Cf. TS Eliot’s poem ‘Marina’ for what I mean.
I still think that morphology ought to be more important in language evolution. I wonder what lines of thinking would lead to if you followed down the route that starts with the thought that morphology sits at the interface of lexicon, phonology, and syntax - does that make it a fossil itself? What is the nature of theoretical detritus - is it more likely to be isolated or joined onto existing patterns?
I should use regular expressions more in NLP for Wired. For instance, in t = ‘two minutes and five seconds’, I should use minutes and then split(‘ ‘) and then use t[x-1] to identify, instead of currently saving slots 1 and 4 for retrieval. Just saying.
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