minimalist program
Stripped-down software approach
The minimalist program is a framework in linguistic theory that seeks to reduce the machinery of grammar to its simplest possible form.
Developed by Noam Chomsky in the 1990s, it asks what the minimal computational system needed for human language might be, stripping away theoretical apparatus that earlier generative models had accumulated.
- mergeCombine into unity
- language acquisitionDeveloping communication ability
- universal grammarInnate linguistic faculty hypothesis
- movementChange in position
- recursionProcess invoking itself
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- Chomskyuniversal grammar, Chomsky hierarchy, competence, performance, recursion
- Chomsky linguisticsuniversal grammar, merge, move, Noam Chomsky, government
- Linguistic Theoriesuniversal grammar, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- syntax theoriesuniversal grammar, CCG, context-free grammar, merge, government