The mechanical acquisition of precedence grammars
Stefano Crespi Reghizzi · University of California, Los Angeles eBooks · 1970
Abstract : A language acquisition device is an abstract model of grammar inference, under well formulated conditions. It is a black box which receives primary linguistic data, and produces a grammar. The study presents a model and computer program which have practical value for some potential applications, and also some implications for child language learning. The primary linguistic data available to the acquisition device includes samples of sentences, sample of nonsentences and the set of possible structural descriptions of the sentences in the language. The model is then able to infer a grammar in the class of operator precedence grammars. (Author)