In Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky and I put forward a "propaganda model" as a framework for analysing and understanding how the mainstream U.S. media work and why they perform as they do (Herman and Chomsky 1988). We had long been impressed with the regularity with which the media operate on the basis of a set of ideological premises, depend heavily...

We may make an intuitive judgment that some linguistic expression is odd or deviant. But we cannot in general know, pretheoretically, whether this deviance is a matter of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, belief , memory limitations, style, etc. [Chomsky (1977:4)] 1 Introduction At least since the pioneering work of Chomsky and Miller (1963), it has been generally agreed within discussions of gram...

In this paper it has been chosen to examine currently accepted principles of “communicative approaches” second language in the theo-ry languages. The examination theoretical bases led us question some existing principles, which is consistent with a more comprehensive framework for consideration linguistic competence. general background competence studied by many scien-tists. notion “linguistic ...

We propose a uniform, category-theoretic account of structural induction for inductively deened data types. The account is based on the understanding of inductively deened data types as initial algebras for certain kind of endofunctors T : B !B on a bicartesian/distributive category B. Regarding a predicate logic as a bration p : P!B over B , we consider a logical predicate lifting of T to the ...

This paper is an attempt to bring together two approaches to language analysis. The possible use of probabilistic information in principle-based grammars and parsers is considered, including discussion on some theoretical and computational problems that arise. Finally a partial implementation of these ideas is presented, along with some preliminary results from testing on a small set of sentenc...

in persian, the only syllable type with consonant clusters is cvcc, where its coda can be filled with two consonants. the present article attempts to find whether these two consonant conform the sonority sequencing principle or not. for this reason, the persian words with cvcc syllable type are gathered from persian dictionaries and are classified based on the vowel filling the nucleus of the s...