magfrump comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: magfrump 06 December 2012 06:48:44PM 1 point [-]

I recently went to a linguistics colloquium because the talk was about extending a model of grammatical choice to decision theory on polynomial rings. Even if it wasn't very accessible to linguists, one of the speakers was clearly a mathematician and there are people making these connections.

Comment author: Plasmon 07 December 2012 10:12:18AM 0 points [-]

Yes. From the entirely anecdotal evidence I have gathered on the subject, it would seem that such research is more often being done by outsiders from maths fields who decided to study some linguistics (or other non-maths fields), then by linguists who decided to study some mathematics.