Language Grammar in the Brain of the Computer and the Programme of the Mind. In Search of a Real Cerebral and Mental Model of Syntax
Abstract
The author of the article tackles the problem of human language grammar from the point of view of several scientific disciplines: theoretical and mathematical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. The subject of the work is a grammar parser, and, especially, the limitations imposed on its structure and function by such factors as: the brain and the mind, the computer and the programme.
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