A central concern of generative grammar is the relationship between hierarchy and word order, traditionally understood as two dimensions of a single syntactic representation. A related concern is directionality in the grammar. Traditional approaches posit process-neutral grammars, embodying knowledge of language, put to use with infinite facility both for production and comprehension. This has ...

In this paper we will discuss phonological structure in the light of first language acquisition data obtained in a case study. These data exhibit cluster reduction (henceforth: CR) and compensatory lengthening (henceforth: CL). The main problem here is that for the description and explanation of these different phonological processes, different models seem to be more adequate than others. Worki...

This paper presents an object-oriented model for machine translation based on Universal Grammar, the Universal Lexicon and language-specific grammars and the lexicons, and demonstrates the internal structures of these linguistic constructs by following a step-by-step process of English to Japanese translation. It elucidates what elements are required in the Universal Lexicon and the lexicons of...

Abstract A ‘universal grammar’ for the full spectrum of visualization types is discussed. The grammar enables analysis any type regarding its syntactic constituents, such as visual encodings and components that are used. Such an a visualization, describing compositional syntax, can be represented specification tree. Colour coded tree branches between constituent enforce combination rules visual...

Generative grammar retained from American structural linguistics the ‘formal’ approach, which basically effaces the semantic and pragmatic dimensions of grammar. This creates serious problems for an account of language acquisition, most especially the problem of how to link universal grammar to some particular language (the linking problem). Parameters do not help the situation, as they depend ...

Grammar is the computational system of language. It is a set of rules that specifies how to construct sentences out of words. Grammar is the basis of the unlimited expressibility of human language. Children acquire the grammar of their native language without formal education simply by hearing a number of sample sentences. Children could not solve this learning task if they did not have some pr...

Every language has its characteristics and rules, though all languages share the same components like words, sentences, subject, verb, object and so on. Nevertheless, Chomsky suggested the theory of language acquisition in children instinctively through a universal grammar that represents a universal grammar for all human languages. Since it has its declaration, this theory has encountered crit...

In probabilistic grammar induction, to avoid overfitting, simplicity priors are often used, which favor smaller grammars. An example of simplicity priors is Solomonoff’s universal probability distribution , where is the description length of the grammar G. The Hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP) [Teh, et al., 2006] has recently been used as a prior for the transition probabilities of a probabi...