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title: "SOME SPECULATIONS ON LANGUAG E"
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url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/235"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0235.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
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# SOME SPECULATIONS ON LANGUAG E



*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

Artificial intelligence as well aa neur ophysiological studies of recent decades sugg est a unitary view of language, in which natu ral language constitutes only part of the tot al language of the organism; the latter is a singl e but complex structure containing also the s ymbol-systems and their transformations respon sible for mental processes. Following Sloman , the dogma that communication is the main function of language is opposed , and impli cations of the unitary thesis i n respect of a number of linguistic and psycho logical questi ons are briefly discussed.