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On Some Axioms About Sentence Length

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

D. L. Olmsted
D. L. Olmsted*
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
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Abstract

Some postulates concerning the length of sentences, as advanced by Noam Chomsky, are considered in the light not only of grammatical possibilities, but also of behavioral probabilities; and certain implications for linguistic theory are suggested.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 1967, pp. 303 - 305
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by Linguistic Society of America

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1 Notable exceptions in the forties and early fifties were Z. S. Harris, C. F. Hockett, R. S. Wells, and C. E. Bazell.