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  1. University of Texas, Austin

    Jacob L. Mey (associate professor of Linguistics)

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and has been appointed professor of Linguistics at Odense University, Odense, Denmark. He is the author of “Norwegian Generative Grammar: Some Antilegomena,” Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap24 (1970): 219–69.

A first draft of this paper was presented to the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, 22 July 1970, under the title, “Toward a Theory of Computational Linguistics.”

The author gratefully acknowledges financial aid from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Rome Air Development Center (Contract F 30602-70-Q-0146). I am indebted to Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Paul Chapin, Winfred Lehmann, Eugene Vasilew, and Robert Wachal for valuable comments.

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Mey, J.L. Computational linguistics and the study of linguistic performance. Comput Hum 6, 131–136 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02402629

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