{"id":627,"date":"2018-04-11T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/?p=627"},"modified":"2018-04-11T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T08:20:31","slug":"the-price-of-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/2018\/04\/11\/the-price-of-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just had a fun week grilling Charles Yang over his book, <em>The Price of Linguistic Productivity<\/em>. We discussed the mechanisms and principles in his framework, and how to apply to them to declension class and gender features, and to V2 and verb raising, how to formulate rules, the difference between contexts of applications and lists, and a slew of other topics. Here are some conclusions, as suggested by Charles.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Everybody should read <em>Aspects<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Linguists should avoid overfitting the data: not every linguistic pattern is real, or worth theorizing over.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0Productivity is categorical, not gradient.<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0There is no shame in achieving good data coverage.<\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0A theory of competence needn\u2019t transparently yield a theory of performance \u2014 but it would be irresponsible to insist that it cannot.<\/p>\n<p>6. \u00a0Third factor considerations require direct empirical motivations, not conceptual ones.<\/p>\n<p>7. \u00a0Some linguistic principles cannot be regressed out of data.<\/p>\n<p>8. \u00a0\u201cAnalogy\u201d should be purged from linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>9. \u00a0Indirect negative evidence is wrong; Bayesian packaging doesn\u2019t make it better.<\/p>\n<p>10. Inductive\/abductive learning of language does not mean that there are no a priori UG hypotheses (i.e., \u201cparameters\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just had a fun week grilling Charles Yang over his book, The Price of Linguistic Productivity. We discussed the mechanisms and principles in his framework, and how to apply to them to declension class and gender features, and to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/2018\/04\/11\/the-price-of-productivity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}