The VC dimension of constraint-based grammars

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1194-1208

  Bane, Max ^a   Riggle, Jason ^a   Sonderegger, Morgan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Harmonic Grammar; Learnability; Optimality Theory; VC dimension

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949875170     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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