The Computability of Competence.

Moyne, J. A.

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Publication Date: 1977

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The Computability of Competence

Moyne, J. A.

Linguistics, 188, 5-9,23, Mar 23 77

Competence is defined as the knowledge of a mature speaker of a language, irrespective of questions about acquisition. It is questioned whether there can be a procedure for generating sentences as a model of this competence; it is concluded that there cannot be a precise, non-random model for competence. (CHK)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Theory, Mathematical Applications, Models

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