This article summarizes and extends recent results linking deterministic parsing to observed "locality principles" in syntax. It also argues that grammatical theories based on explicit phrase structure rules are unlikely to provide comparable explanations of why natural languages are built the way they are.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5617 |
| Date | 01 April 1985 |
| Creators | Berwick, Robert C., Weinberg, Amy S. |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 32 p., 5714384 bytes, 4480840 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
| Relation | AIM-836 |
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