Affiliation:
1. University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics Philadelphia USA
Abstract
Abstract
I provide an overview of the Tolerance Principle, its motivation, supporting evidence, and applications, with particular focus on how it can be used recursively to discover linguistic regularities of varying scopes. It corrects the misunderstandings in Enger’s recent article but the more important goal is to provide rigorously formulated predictions and quantitative data to the structural analysis of language.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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