The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition
by Robert C. Berwick
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Written primarily from the perspective of computational theory, Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance presents a synthesis of some major recent developments in grammatical theory and its application to models of language performance. Its main thesis is that Chomsky's government-binding theory is a good foundation for models of both machine parsing and language learnability.Both authors are at MIT. Robert C. Berwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and show more Computer Science, and Amy Weinberg is in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Their book is eleventh in the series Current Studies in Linguistics. show lessTags
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Usual Chomskyan crap. Look at Mark Turner for a better analysis of the basis of linguistic performance
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