connected text in PIE; Proto-World language
Ralf-Stefan Georg
Georg at home.ivm.de
Tue Jul 13 08:55:38 UTC 1999
> (1) When neural-net computers get advanced enough for people to
>simulate better than now human brain processes including language, it
>would be interesting to simulate language evolution and see over how
>many centuries and by what steps a language changes so much that all
>trace of common ancestry vanishes behind the `noise' of accidental
>resemblances.
Sure we will learn a great deal from those neural-net computers. But, in
order to gain a better understanding of language change from them, we
should be able to bring them to interact socially with all that goes with
it.
Stefan Georg
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