Inttranews special report: Linguistics revolution</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Inttranews special report: Linguistics revolution"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Inttranews,special,report,Linguistics,revolution"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">21-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Inttranews special report: Linguistics revolution</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">One of the most fascinating - and enduring - questions in linguistics is how language gets its structure: is this structure genetically determined, and innate, or does emerge over time under the influence of physical and social constraints on its use? The issue is not just an academic one: it has ramifications in fields as seemingly wide apart as primatology and artificial intelligence. <br>A new and potentially revolutionary area of research in this area is based on the idea that like many kinds of complex systems, language is fractal, i.e. its overall structure evolves from repeated small-scale interactions between its smaller elements, a phenomenon known as "self-organisation". <br>To find out more, Inttranews contacted Andrew Wedel, an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. <br> <br>For more information, please click here: <br><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net/eng/interview/wedel_en.html" target="blank">inttranews.inttra.net/eng/interview/wedel_en.html</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show