Colorless green ideas do sleep furiously: gradient acceptability and the nature of the grammar

In their recent paper, Lau, Clark, and Lappin explore the idea that the probability of the occurrence of word strings can form the basis of an adequate theory of grammar (Lau, Jey H., Alexander Clark & 15 Shalom Lappin. 2017. Grammaticality, acceptability, and probability: A prob- abilistic view...

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Main Authors: Sprouse, Jon (Author), Yankama, Beracah (Author), Indurkhya, Sagar (Author), Fong, Sandiway (Author), Berwick, Robert C (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020-06-22T19:59:32Z.
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