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Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (Hardcover, New)
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Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (Hardcover, New)
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This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of
grammatical theory and grammatical variation: to what extent can
principles of grammar be explained through language use? John A.
Hawkins argues that there is a profound correspondence between
performance data and the fixed conventions of grammars. Preferences
and patterns found in the one, he shows, are reflected in
constraints and variation patterns in the other. The theoretical
consequences of the proposed 'performance-grammar correspondence
hypothesis' are far-reaching -- for current grammatical formalisms,
for the innateness hypothesis, and for psycholinguistic models of
performance and learning. Drawing on empirical generalizations and
insights from language typology, generative grammar,
psycholinguistics, and historical linguistics, Professor Hawkins
demonstrates that the assumption that grammars are immune to
performance is false.
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