Simplicity and the Form of Grammars

The goal of theory construction is explanation: for language, theory for particular languages (grammar) and for the faculty of language FoL (the innate endowment for language acquisition). A primitive notion of simplicity of grammars is number of symbols, but this is too crude. An improved measure...

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Main Author: Noam Chomsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of Language Modelling
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Online Access:https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/257