The question of whether humans represent grammatical knowledge as a binary condition on
membership in a set of well‐formed sentences, or as a probabilistic property has been the …

Abstract The Gradual Learning Algorithm (Boersma 1997) is a constraint-ranking algorithm
for learning optimality-theoretic grammars. The purpose of this article is to assess the …

The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of
phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive …

Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad
introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account …

The first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their
phonology, morphology, and syntax, and the first comprehensive survey of clitic phenomena …

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on
neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one …

A comprehensive and critical AZ guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of
language and linguistics, definitions featured include: terms used in grammatical analysis …

Intended for the absolute beginner, Introducing Phonetics and Phonology requires no
previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology. Starting with a grounding in …

This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical
indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and …

This thesis deals with gradience in grammar, ie, with the fact that some linguistic structures
are not fully acceptable or unacceptable, but receive gradient linguistic judgments. The …