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Download full textWexler, Kenneth; And Others – 1974
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…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals
