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An Analysis of Theoretical Review of Generative Grammar in Contemporary Linguistics

open access: yesLET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal
This article presents a theoretical analysis of Generative Grammar and its relevance in contemporary linguistics. The discussion begins with an overview of the origins of Generative Grammar, particularly the contributions of Noam Chomsky, who introduced
Rahil Helmi   +3 more
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On Morpho-Syntax

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019
This short paper offers a moment of reflection on the state of the Generative Grammar enterprise especially in light of the fact the Minimalist Syntax has so completely returned to a mission that includes (rather than explicitly excludes) a model of word-
Daniel Siddiqi
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Language Impairment and Generative Analysis

open access: yesELOPE, 2004
This article deals with different types of language impairment from the perspective of generative grammar. The paper focuses on syntactic deficiencies observed in aphasic and SLI (specific language impairment) patients.
Andrej Stopar, Gašper Ilc
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Grammar induction for mildly context sensitive languages using variational Bayesian inference

open access: yes, 2014
The following technical report presents a formal approach to probabilistic minimalist grammar induction. We describe a formalization of a minimalist grammar. Based on this grammar, we define a generative model for minimalist derivations.
Bergen, Leon   +4 more
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A Note on Zipf's Law, Natural Languages, and Noncoding DNA regions [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
In Phys. Rev. Letters (73:2, 5 Dec. 94), Mantegna et al. conclude on the basis of Zipf rank frequency data that noncoding DNA sequence regions are more like natural languages than coding regions. We argue on the contrary that an empirical fit to Zipf's ``
Berwick, Robert C., Niyogi, Partha
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E-generalization using grammars

open access: yesArtificial Intelligence, 2005
49 pages, 16 figures, author address given in header is meanwhile outdated, full version of an article in the "Artificial Intelligence Journal", appeared as technical report in 2003.
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Generative Grammar and the Neurobiological Correlates of the Human Language Faculty: Some Open Questions and Challenges

open access: yesPolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2023
The article investigates whether the generative grammar paradigm as well as the using of Neuroimaging in the empirical investigations of language acquisition, perception etc., may enable a better identification of the neurobiological correlates of the ...
Barbara Sadownik
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Strong Generative Capacity and the Empirical Base of Linguistic Theory

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
This Perspective traces the evolution of certain central notions in the theory of Generative Grammar (GG). The founding documents of the field suggested a relation between the grammar, construed as recursively enumerating an infinite set of sentences ...
Dennis Ott
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Explicit codification in Pāṇini and generative grammar

open access: yesRhesis
Generative grammar and Pāṇini’s grammar – so-called Aṣṭādhyāyī, dating from ca. 4th century B.C. – differ in scope and goals: while generative grammarians search for the limits of variation in natural languages to explain what makes language acquisition
Davide Mocci
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Introduction

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2002
This volume collects the papers on Portuguese selected for presentation at the XII Colloquium on Generative Grammar, held in Lisbon in April 2002.
Renaud Beeckmans
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