efficient convergence to a correct grammar. We discuss implications for learning from overt data only, as well as other learning issues. We argue that Optimality Theory promotes confluence of the demands of more effective learnability and deeper linguistic explanation.

This short paper draws attention to an unresolved contradiction between fundamental assumptions of modern linguistics and economics. Endogenous growth theory has become the consensus explanation of the phenomenon of long-term economic growth. That theory makes an assumption which is not seen

Abstract-At the turn of the century, the study of agrammatism started in German aphasiology with the introduction of syntax as an object of research in linguistics and the psychology of language. The disorder descriptively known as agrammatism was originally thought to arise from multiple origins

What we may call ‘the sociolinguistic method ’ is neither new to socio-linguistics, nor universally adhered to by sociolinguists, nor-strictly speaking-a method. It is basically a working hypothesis with a distinctive (within linguistics) methodological and concetpual apparatus, built up

How do people know as much as they do with as little information as they get? The problem takes many forms; learning vocabulary from text is an especially dramatic and convenient case for research. A new general theory of acquired similarity and knowledge representation, latent semantic analysis

this paper [ am indebted to Christian Rohrer and Tobias Goeser

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This paper focuses on four studies of pupils' reading comprehension completed at the ilniversity of Alberta. A number of investigators have described the acquisition and use of connectives by pupils and have indicated the importance of connectives in the development of abstract logical thinking. (Teachers often consider these words too simple to teach in reading classes except as sight words.) One of the author's concerns was the identification of connectives in three series of basal readers widely used in Canada at the upper elementary school level and an investigation of the understanding children have of them in reading. The amount of subordination produced, by children eight to 12 years of age ranges from 10 to 30 percent of their total sentences with tl-e amount increasing from year to year, 1,11t, their basal readers use connectives in about 37 percent of the sentences and the amount is almost constant from grade to grade. (Forty two connectives were

This article attempts to determine what elements of linguistic theory are used in statisticaJ language learning, and why the extracted language models look like they do. The study indicates that some linguistic elements, such as the notion of a word, are simply too useful to be iguored

Abstract. Scientific theories are more than purely formal constructs, but linguistic artefacts that often rely on the rhetorical qualities of language to give their claims additional resonance and argumentative force. This reliance of theory upon language is even greater in those theoretical