Private Knowledge, Public Tensions: Theory Commitment in Postwar American Linguistics

Propelled by a desire to understand natural language, American linguists of the postwar period brought the tools of the era to bear on the study of syntax: computer science, math- ematical graph theory, and even Cold War strategy. Three syntactic theories were enun- ciated, each trying to untangl...

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Main Author: Nielsen, Janet
Other Authors: Gillon, Brendan
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19064

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