On the interpretation of ‘nonsense strings’
- 1 April 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Linguistics
- Vol. 5 (1) , 75-83
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700002061
Abstract
Katz's statement of the core of the problem of ungrammaticalness is worth quoting at length: ‘The knowledge that enables a speaker to understand sentences – his knowledge of the rules of the grammar – must be identically the knowledge that enables him to understand semi-sentences, for semi-sentences are understood in terms of their well-formed parts. Moreover, the knowledge a speaker uses to recognize the respects in which a semi-sentence is ungrammatical is also his knowledge of grammaticality: knowledge of the grammatical rules is here employed to discover instances of their violation.…Keywords
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