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Quote: statistical approximation is irrelevant to grammar; e.g., 'colorless green ideas sleep furiously' is rare but grammatical

topics > all references > references c-d > QuoteRef: chomN9_1956 , p. 116



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statistics
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grammar

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There is no general relation between the frequency … by considering such strings as "(14) colorless green … no pair of its words may ever have … [p. 116] Hence, the notion of statistical approximation appears …   Google-1   Google-2

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