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This document discusses whether English is a finite state language by examining its grammatical structure. It presents the Chomsky hierarchy of formal language classes and their corresponding machines. While finite state grammars can generate simple languages, English exhibits center-embedding and nested dependencies that require more complex grammars like context-free grammars. Natural languages are believed to have a generative capacity between context-free and context-sensitive languages.

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Larry Ultimate-Henry
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