The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #35894   Message #492700
Posted By: Mark Cohen
26-Jun-01 - 11:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Songwriter's Theory 4002: Mandatory
Subject: RE: BS: Songwriter's Theory 4002: Mandatory
That's fatuous. The ubiquity of polysemy across languages is attributable to the stability of the organization of cerebral language centers across individuals. It's not necessary to posit an arbitrary parameter and then to create "data" purporting to demonstrate the applicability of that parameter in a derived statistical model. Everybody knows that!

Aloha,
Mark