The phonological principle

Over at Language Log, Mark Liberman discusses the connection between Sistine Chapel smoke color and Hockett’s duality of patterning. (“More concretely, we could call it the ‘phonological principle’.”) As Mark notes at the end, “some bits of this post are recycled from [his] lecture notes for ling001″.

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