LEARNING-THEORETIC FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS

Kenneth N. Wexler · Peter W. Culicover · Henry Hamburger

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Language Development and Disorders semigroups and automata theory

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Abstract : Some aspects of a theory of grammar are presented which derive from a formal theory of language acquisition. One aspect of the theory is a universal constraint on analyzability known as the Freezing Principle, which supplants a variety of constraints proposed in the literature. A second aspect of the theory is the Invariance Principle, a constraint on the relationship between semantic and syntactic structure that makes verifiable predictions of syntactic universals. The relationship between the notion of 'explanatory adequacy' of a theory of grammar and the learnability of a class of transformational grammars is discussed.

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