Efficiency and complexity in grammars

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[...]... contributing to the discovery of an innate language faculty and of the child’s initial cognitive state through detailed formal analysis of certain structures and languages, is very appealing to many linguists and psycholinguists Another reason for resisting the PGCH is that theories of processing and use are still in their relative infancy, and many basic issues, including the nature of working memory,... domainspecific and innate (J A Fodor 1983) There is clearly a strong innate basis to the physiological aspects of speech and hearing Much of meaning and cognition is presumably innate But whether, and to what extent, the universals of syntax are also innately determined now becomes a more complex, and I believe more interesting, question The kinds of data from performance and grammars to be considered in. .. will elaborate on and test one principle in particular (Minimize Forms) and Chapters 5–8 will test the individual and combined predictions of all three predictions on data from performance and grammars I need to proceed gradually in presenting this approach since this way of looking at grammars, which is heavily in uenced by processing, is quite alien to linguists unfamiliar with psycholinguistics It also... efficiencies and preferences to be discussed here and on the manner in which they emerge from this architecture In Hawkins (1994, 2001) I appealed to increasing working memory load in progressively larger domains for phrase structure processing as an explanation for linear ordering preferences and adjacency effects Gibson (1998) builds on this same working memory idea to explain locality preferences in integration... conventions Three of these principles are defined and illustrated here: Minimize Domains, Minimize Forms, and Maximize On-line Processing • Greater descriptive and explanatory adequacy can be achieved when efficiency and complexity principles are incorporated into the theory of grammar; stipulations are avoided, many exceptions can be explained, and improved formalisms incorporating significant generalizations... other parsing explanations for grammars that were summarized in Hawkins (1994), including Kuno (1973a, 1974) and Dryer (1980) on center embedding avoidance in performance and grammars; Janet Fodor’s (1978, 1984) parsing explanation for the Nested Dependency Constraint; and Bever’s (1970) and Frazier’s (1985) explanation for the impossibility of that deletion in English sentential subjects in terms of... call grammars, or in grammatical variation They are interested in the performance mechanisms that underlie comprehension and production in real time Conversely it has been widely assumed in linguistics, since Chomsky (1965), that grammars have not been shaped by performance to any significant extent Grammars, according to this view, are predetermined by an innate language faculty, and they stand in an... this in a way that minimizes the problems Newmeyer discusses by maximizing the generality of principles, supporting them with quantitative data from performance, and by trying to motivate and derive their interaction in a principled way 2 Linguistic Forms, Properties, and Efficient Signaling In §1.3 I proposed an efficiency complexity hypothesis and I referred to three general principles that will give... substance to it: Minimize Domains, Minimize Forms, and Maximize On-line Processing In this chapter and the next I shall define these principles and associated sub-principles, discuss their respective motivations, and illustrate the kinds of preferences and dispreferences that they predict The current chapter will introduce background assumptions, before giving more detailed definitions in Chapter 3 Chapter... increased, first, by minimizing the domains (i.e the sequences of linguistic forms and their conventionally associated properties) within which certain properties are assigned It is increased, secondly, by minimizing the linguistic forms (phonemes, morphemes, etc.) that are to be processed, and by reducing their conventionally associated properties, maximizing in the process the role of contextual information . varied, including word order,casemaking, filler-gap dependencies, island constraints, and anaphoric binding. Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars is a landmark work, setting a new standard in the. Minimize Domains, Minimize Forms, and Maximize On-line Processing. • Greater descriptive and explanatory adequacy can be achieved when effi- ciency and complexity principles are incorporated into. 13 2 Linguistic Forms, Properties, and Efficient Signaling 15 2.1 Forms and properties 15 2.2 Property assignments in combinatorial and dependency relations 18 2.3 Efficiency and complexity in form–property