Statistical distribution and the grammatical/ungrammatical distinction

Grammars

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-13

  Culy, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus; Grammaticality; Stochastic grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944433848     PISSN: 13861793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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