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Re: VMs: RE: King Tut Word Game, or the EKT Hypothesis



Gabriel Landini wrote:
> 
> That is not self-similarity. It may be better not to use that term in that
> context, I think.
> I wondered because there are 2 different aspects of self-similarity in
> language, one in self-referencing (mostly to do with self-replicating strings
> like the "ana" sequence) and the other with symbolic long range correlations.

	I don't quite understand, Gabriel.   "Self-replicating
strings 
like the 'ana' sequence", do you mean palindromic
sequences?  
"Symbolic long-range correlations", do you mean bound
morphemes like word 
affixes, parallel phrases like rhetorical periods, or
something else?

Dennis
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