Performance Grammars

Abstract

Evidence is offered to support the view that linguistic competence cannot in principle be divorced from linguistic performance in order to abstract universal properties of grammars, that rules of grammar inevitably incorporate perceptual strategies and constraints, and that grammaticality and acceptability are related to predictability. The theory of systematic variation affords better direction for gathering data on rule-governed language use and a means for representing the results in formal grammars that predict speech behavior. Some of the strategies and constraints operating in performance and the rule- governed regularities they produce are demonstrated in the analysis of seven tape- recorded task-oriented dialogs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA457988

Entities

People

  • Jane J. Robinson

Organizations

  • SRI International

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acceptability
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Grammars
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Monitoring
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Words (Language)

Fields of Study

  • Linguistics

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Systems Analysis and Design