%0 Report %@ 330 %A Shieber, Stuart M. %T Evidence Against The Context-Freeness Of Natural Language %C 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 %I AI Center, SRI International %D 1984 %K Natural Language %X In searching for universal constraints on the class of natural languages, linquists have investigated a number of formal properties, including that of context-freeness. Soon after Chomsky’s categorization of languages into his well-known hierarchy [Chomsky, 1963], the common conception of the context-free class of languages as a tool for describing natural languages was that it was too restrictive a class–interpreted strongly (as a way of characterizing structure sets) and even weakly (as a way of characterizing string sets). %U http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/622.pdf
