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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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19064 |
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