Alberto Bruzos
@abruzos.bsky.social
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Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu
Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu
![In the letter Jakobson suggests that a closer collaboration between engineering and linguistics is crucial for the future development of linguistics (cf. Segal 2003, chapter 6). Moreover, after having read Wiener’s Cybernetics, in a brief note to Weiner, Jakobson (February, 1949) declares his astonishment at the striking parallels between the problems of cybernetics and linguistics he discovered while reading Cybernetics: At every step I was again and again surprised at the extreme parallelism between the problems of modern linguistic analysis and the fascinating prob- lems which you [= Wiener, JVDW] discuss. The linguistic pattern fits excellently into the structures you analyze and it is becoming still clearer how great are the outlooks for a consistent cooperation between modern linguistics and the exact sciences. (Quoted in Kay 2000: 297–2987, my emphasis, JVDW; MIT Archives, Wiener Papers, MC22, Box 2.92)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7n2kt5p362rv743jafmnj4ls/bafkreidlotvm2v2evsiqbnk76um3ff34toklm4cei6l2bhw725hlvbprny)
