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Language as Choice and Chance, by G. Herdan. Groningen, Noordhoff, 1956. Pp. xvi – 356 (Reviewed by Raven I. McDavidJr. , Western Reserve University).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1957 , pp. 28 - 29
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1957

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1 Herdan had previously puhlished his account of the Equatorie problem in Language 32 (1956) : 254–59

2 It is refreshing to note that Herdan finds the weak spot of J. W. Perry' simulated machine translation of Russian (and essentially of all the highly publicized and subsidized work in mechanical documentation) : deliberately or unconsciously ignoring the linguistic structures involved. For a more detailed treatment of this particular problem, see Martin, Joos's review of Machine Translation of Languages : Fourteen Essays, Language 32, (1956) : 293–98.Google Scholar