Natural languages and context-free languages Export

@article{PG82, abstract = {Notice that this paper has not claimed that all natural languages are CFL's. What it has shown is that every published argument purporting to demonstrate the non-context-freeness of some natural language is invalid, either formally or empirically or both.18 Whether non-context-free characteristics can be found in the stringset of some natural language remains an open question, just as it was a quarter century ago.}, author = {Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Gazdar, Gerald}, citeulike-article-id = {3474770}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00360802}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/BF00360802}, journal = {Linguistics and Philosophy}, keywords = {context-freeness, language, natural, of}, month = {December}, number = {4}, pages = {471--504}, posted-at = {2008-11-03 13:13:29}, priority = {0}, title = {Natural languages and context-free languages}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00360802}, volume = {4}, year = {1982} }

TY - JOUR ID - PG82 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3474770 N2 - Notice that this paper has not claimed that all natural languages are CFL's. What it has shown is that every published argument purporting to demonstrate the non-context-freeness of some natural language is invalid, either formally or empirically or both.18 Whether non-context-free characteristics can be found in the stringset of some natural language remains an open question, just as it was a quarter century ago. IS - 4 JF - Linguistics and Philosophy EP - 504 TI - Natural languages and context-free languages VL - 4 SP - 471 KW - context-freeness KW - language KW - natural KW - of AU - Pullum, Geoffrey AU - Gazdar, Gerald PY - 1982/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00360802 ER -