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Language and linguistics
1978
Language Teaching
LINGUISTIC THEORY 78-316 Hurford, James R. The significance of linguistic generalisations. Language (Baltimore, Md), 53, 3 (1977), 574-620. A rigorous objective method is proposed for determining the significance of a generalisation, based on probability theory. The proposal is illustrated by applying it to examples central to theorising in generative grammar. Precisely formulated versions of claims made by Chomsky on the use of certain abbreviatory notations (e.g. parentheses) and by Halle on
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