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Recent wide-spread shifts in the conception of grammar from a system of rules to a system of constraints on representation has raised the possibility that a similar refocusing might also be appropriate with respect to performance and in particular natural language processing. This chapter explores certain empirical and theoretical issues relevant to principle-based approaches to parsing with special attention to the processing of long-distance dependencies.
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Pritchett, B.L. (1991). Subjacency in a Principle-Based Parser. In: Berwick, R.C., Abney, S.P., Tenny, C. (eds) Principle-Based Parsing. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3474-3_12
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