Thank you for your comments. Now please do your assignment. Oh,
and I don't know when you are ever gonna have to "use this
stuff", as you so eloquently put it. But here's someone studying
nouns and verbs in English who "uses this stuff". The
researchers took the sounds of more than 3,000 words in English
and subdivided each by its phonetic features — in other words,
what a person does with his mouth, lungs and vocal cords to
produce the sounds of each word. "We could then represent each
word in a multidimensional space," Christiansen told
LiveScience. This multidimensional space, similar to a simple
coordinate-system graph, gave researchers a chance to see where
each noun and verb fell relative to all the others. "Each word
is a point in this sound-based, or phonological, space,"
Christiansen explained, adding that the distance between the
words could be calculated. The nouns were closer to other nouns,
and the verbs were closer to other verbs. About 65 percent of
all nouns have another noun as its nearest ne