@article{1412405,
      recid = {1412405},
      author = {O'Donnell, Timothy J.,},
      title = {Productivity and reuse in language : a theory of  linguistic computation and storage /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) :},
      abstract = {"Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded  number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated  property is made possible by a division of labor between a  large inventory of stored items (e.g., affixes, words,  idioms) and a computational system that productively  combines these stored units on the fly to create a  potentially unlimited array of new expressions. A language  learner must discover a language's productive, reusable  units and determine which computational processes can give  rise to new expressions. But how does the learner  differentiate between the reusable, generalizable units  (for example, the affix -ness, as in coolness, orderliness,  cheapness) and apparent units that do not actually  generalize in practice (for example, -th, as in warmth but  not coolth)? In this book, Timothy O'Donnell proposes a  formal computational model, Fragment Grammars, to answer  these questions. This model treats productivity and reuse  as the target of inference in a probabilistic framework,  asking how an optimal agent can make use of the  distribution of forms in the linguistic input to learn the  distribution of productive word-formation processes and  reusable units in a given language"--MIT CogNet.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1412405},
}