Parsing and Linguistic Explanation
Author(s)
Berwick, Robert C.; Weinberg, Amy S.
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This article summarizes and extends recent results linking deterministic parsing to observed "locality principles" in syntax. It also argues that grammatical theories based on explicit phrase structure rules are unlikely to provide comparable explanations of why natural languages are built the way they are.
Date issued
1985-04-01Other identifiers
AIM-836
Series/Report no.
AIM-836
Keywords
natural language processing, cognitive modeling, parsing