The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition

by Robert C. Berwick and Amy S. Weinberg

Book Overview

Written primarily from the perspective of computational theory, Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance presents a synthesis of some major recent developments in grammatical theory and its application to models of language performance. Its main thesis is that Chomsky's government-binding theory is a good foundation for models of both machine parsing and language learnability. Both authors are at MIT. Robert C. Berwick is Assistant Professor in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262021927
• ISBN13: 9780262021920
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 288 Pages