My intention in this paper is to outline and motivate a novel theory of syntactic bootstrapping, Exemplar-Based Phonological Bootstrapping (EBPB), based on Stochastic Tree-Substitution Grammar. Because I have outlined the basic structure of STSG in other places for assessed work on this degree, I will not recapitulate that work in the body of the present paper, but will instead quote it in full...

The number of low-energy constants (LECs) in chiral effective field theory ($\ensuremath{\chi}\mathrm{EFT}$) grows rapidly with increasing order, necessitating the use Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques for sampling their posterior probability density function. For this we introduce a Hamiltonian (HMC) algorithm and sample LEC up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) two-nucleon sector $\ens...