Comment on Language, intelligence, rationality

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:16:04 GMT

Self-segregating morphology. That's the language construction term for a sound system where the divisions between all the components (sentences, prefixes, roots, suffixes, and so on) are immediately obvious and unambiguous. Without understanding anything about the speech, you know the syntactical structure.

Only until phonological changes, morphological erosion, cliticisation, and sundry other processes take place. And whether and how those processes happen isn't related to how well the phonology flows, either, as far as I can tell.

Discuss