From Simple Input to Complex Grammar

Summary

The book shows that, assuming information about phrasal structure to be available in input, one can prove that the child can learn a natural language from extremely simple sentences, sentences of the type that children actually hear.

Keywords

Learnability, Grammar, Simple (philosophy), Computer science, Natural language

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