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Comment by BjoernKW

HPSG or statistical approaches in computational linguistics, for instance.

Now, of course one can argue - as Chomsky himself has done - that statistical approaches are not as elegant as rule-based ones but as human language faculty quite likely behaves statistically to some degree, statistical methods for describing language do have some merit.

parent BjoernKW 9 years ago

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