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Schnelle, Helmut – Langages, 1972
Special issue devoted to the study of generative grammar in German-speaking countries. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
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DeCamp, David – Linguistics, 1971
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Language Patterns, Mathematical Linguistics, Mathematical Models
Wexler, 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
Smith, Robert Lawrence, Jr. – 1972
This report is a detailed empirical examination of Suppes' ideas about the syntax and semantics of natural language, and an attempt at supporting the proposal that model-theoretic semantics of the type first proposed by Tarski is a useful tool for understanding the semantics of natural language. Child speech was selected as the best place to find…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Context Free Grammar