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Ideography, Blissymbolics, standardization, and emergent conformity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2023

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Harry Howard*
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Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA howard@tulane.edu; https://www2.tulane.edu/~h0Ward/
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Abstract

There is an extensive literature on the usage of Blissymbolics in augmentative and alternative communication that contradicts Morin's contention that it fails as an ideography. Morin's notion of “standardization” (target article, sect. X, para. X) is at odds with the highly developed understanding of this notion in linguistics. What Morin seems to have in mind corresponds to the notion of emergence in iterative and multiagent models of language learning.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e246
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