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Krasnow Institute > Monday Seminars > Abstracts Universal Grammar in Language Learning and Language
Use This talk has 4 goals: - to introduce people to the "principles and parameters" framework of Chomsky and his colleagues. This framework claims that all of the world's languages have a common "core grammar" . This grammar has a small number of "switching points". By setting these points to different values we derive the grammars of languages with very different properties. - to show how grammars of this type, combined with a monotonicity criterion can account for experimental data regarding preferential and impossible interpretations of sentences and to discuss the role of ERP data in these experiments. - to show that these principles apply to a variety of languages and that they can form the basis of successful language processing systems. -to contrast these models with pure frequency or statistically based solutions.
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