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Skousen, Royal

Analogy and structure / Royal Skousen - Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1992 - XII, 376 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents. I: STRUCTURALIST DESCRIPTIONS. 1. Measuring the certainty of probabilistic rules. 2. Systems of rules. 3. The agreement density for continuous rules. 4. Maximun likelihood statistics. 5. Optimal descriptions. 6. Simplest descriptions. 7. Prefereed derivations. 8. Analyzing the effect of a variable. II: ANALOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS. 9. Problems with structural descriptions. 10. An analogical approach. 11. A natural test for homogeneity. 12. Statistical analogy. 13. Defining other levels of significance. 14. Actual examples. 15. Analogical analysis of continuous variables. 16. Behavioral factors.

ISBN: 0792319354

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Analogy (Linguistics)
Structural linguistics

LC Class. No.: P126.S575

Dewey Class. No.: 410