Edward Gibson

Yes. Yeah. But so you were talking earlier about translation and about how translations, there's good and bad translations. I mean, now we're talking about translations of form, right? So what makes writing good, right?

Yes. Yeah. But so you were talking earlier about translation and about how translations, there's good and bad translations. I mean, now we're talking about translations of form, right? So what makes writing good, right?

It's not just the content, it's how it's written. And translating that, that sounds difficult. I don't know how to do that.

It's not just the content, it's how it's written. And translating that, that sounds difficult. I don't know how to do that.

It's not just the content, it's how it's written. And translating that, that sounds difficult. I don't know how to do that.

We can probably get measures of those.

We can probably get measures of those.

We can probably get measures of those.

I don't know. I'm optimistic that we could get measures of those things, and so maybe that's... Translatable. I don't know. I don't know, though. I have not worked on that.

I don't know. I'm optimistic that we could get measures of those things, and so maybe that's... Translatable. I don't know. I don't know, though. I have not worked on that.

I don't know. I'm optimistic that we could get measures of those things, and so maybe that's... Translatable. I don't know. I don't know, though. I have not worked on that.

that's your sense huh it's simple sentences short yeah yeah yeah i mean that's when if you have really long sentences even if they don't have center embedding like they can have longer connections yeah they can have longer connections they don't have to right you can't have a long long sentence with a bunch of local words yeah yeah but it's but it is much more likely to have the possibility of long dependencies with long sentences yeah

that's your sense huh it's simple sentences short yeah yeah yeah i mean that's when if you have really long sentences even if they don't have center embedding like they can have longer connections yeah they can have longer connections they don't have to right you can't have a long long sentence with a bunch of local words yeah yeah but it's but it is much more likely to have the possibility of long dependencies with long sentences yeah

that's your sense huh it's simple sentences short yeah yeah yeah i mean that's when if you have really long sentences even if they don't have center embedding like they can have longer connections yeah they can have longer connections they don't have to right you can't have a long long sentence with a bunch of local words yeah yeah but it's but it is much more likely to have the possibility of long dependencies with long sentences yeah

I would say yes. I think it's not crazy at all. I think it's quite reasonable. There's this sort of odd view, I think, to think that human language is somehow special. I mean, maybe it is. We can certainly do more than any of the other species. And maybe our language system is part of that, it's possible.

I would say yes. I think it's not crazy at all. I think it's quite reasonable. There's this sort of odd view, I think, to think that human language is somehow special. I mean, maybe it is. We can certainly do more than any of the other species. And maybe our language system is part of that, it's possible.

I would say yes. I think it's not crazy at all. I think it's quite reasonable. There's this sort of odd view, I think, to think that human language is somehow special. I mean, maybe it is. We can certainly do more than any of the other species. And maybe our language system is part of that, it's possible.

But people have often talked about how human, like Chomsky, in fact, has talked about how only human language has this compositionality thing that he thinks is sort of key in language. And the problem with that argument is he doesn't speak whale. And he doesn't speak crow, and he doesn't speak monkey. They say things like, well, they're making a bunch of grunts and squeaks.

But people have often talked about how human, like Chomsky, in fact, has talked about how only human language has this compositionality thing that he thinks is sort of key in language. And the problem with that argument is he doesn't speak whale. And he doesn't speak crow, and he doesn't speak monkey. They say things like, well, they're making a bunch of grunts and squeaks.

But people have often talked about how human, like Chomsky, in fact, has talked about how only human language has this compositionality thing that he thinks is sort of key in language. And the problem with that argument is he doesn't speak whale. And he doesn't speak crow, and he doesn't speak monkey. They say things like, well, they're making a bunch of grunts and squeaks.