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DTSTAMP:20131006T230216Z
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SUMMARY:Distributional learning of syntax
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DESCRIPTION:LEL Research Seminar talk. Abstract: "Recently some new techn
 iques of grammatical inference have been developed\, inspired by some ol
 d ideas of distributional learning from structuralist linguistics. These
  models have now reached a level where the classes of grammars that they
  can learn are large enough to describe natural languages. This raises t
 he interesting question as to whether they are plausible models of langu
 age acquisition\, and if so what the consequences are for the standard m
 odels of mainstream generative grammar. In this talk\, I will survey the
  current state of the art of this theory\, and relate it to fundamental 
 disputes about the nature of the language faculty."
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A2.16\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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