An Underdiscussed Aspect of Chomsky (1959)

An Insertion into the Chomsky Hierarchy?

This review paper will report on some recent discoveries in the area of Formal Languages, chie y by F. Otto, G. Buntrock and G. Niemann. These discoveries have pointed out certain break-throughs connected with the concept of growing contextsensitive languages, which originated in the 1980's with a paper by E. Dahlhaus and M.K. Warmuth. One important result is that the deterministic growing cont...

MTPHs, an Aesthetic Aspect of Local Architecture of Lenjanat

Among the variety and diversity of pigeon houses, Multi-Tier Pigeon Houses (MTPHs) are distinguished from the functional and aesthetic point of view and are considered as a specific local architectural sights of Lenjanat. However, few studies have been conducted to study this type of pigeon house and these constructs have remained unknown. In this study we have conducted library and field studi...

An Intervention Analysis Of The Behavior Of The Iranian Real Gross Domestic Product: 1959-2001

What if Chomsky were right?

The outcome of scientific research depends on how a phenomenon is viewed and how the questions are phrased. This applies also to the nativist view of language acquisition. As a complement to MacWhinney’s discussion of nativism from the viewpoint of cognitive psychology, I would like to devote this commentary to the question of the title from the viewpoint of computational linguistics. Formally,...

Five Decades After Chomsky An Experienced - Based Awakening

Over 50 years ago, Noam Chomsky (1959, 1965) threw down the nativist gauntlet on language, and has withstood potshots from many quarters. His debut involved a critique of B.F Skinner’s (1957) account of language acquisition. Central to Skinner’s account was the important influence of the linguistic environment. Fundamental reinforcement principles would effect the association of spoken words wi...