Friday, February 25, 2022

The Complexity of Trees, Universal Grammar and Economy Conditions

Abstract: In this squib, I argue that the child faces a severe computational complexity problem in parsing even the simplest of trees: the number of possible trees grows exponentially as a function of the number of lexical items. Principles of UG and economy conditions have the result of drastically decreasing the complexity of the parsing task, making language acquisition possible.

The Complexity of Trees, Universal Grammar and Economy Conditions


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