Abstract
In his recent bid for the presidency of the Association for Mathematics of
Language, Makoto Kanazawa writes:*The scientific study of language is such a large and important field that
it's strange that so little mathematical research is being
carried out. By comparison, the latest issue of Journal of
Economic Theory has 14 original articles, and all but one
of them are mathematical papers in the sense of containing theorems and
proofs. And the title of the journal is not ‘Journal
of Mathematical Economics’, which is actually a
separate journal.1 That linguistics lags behind economics is not surprising: making
more money is a stronger drive for change and progress than better understanding
the language faculty. But Bruce Tesar's book shows that the time
might be ripe for change and progress in our field as well. Employing a formally
sophisticated analytical approach (as opposed to a purely simulation-based
approach), the book provides a beautiful example of the interplay between
learnability and structural assumptions on the typological space. It thus shows
that computational phonology has become a mature subfield of generative
linguistics.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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