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Journal articles on the topic "Theory universal grammar"

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Assist. Inst. Ahmed Hamid Abdulrazzaq. "Generative Phonology Models of Universal Grammar: Constraint-Based Optimality Theory as Opposed to the Rule-Based SPE Model." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 62, no. 2 (June 15, 2023): 428–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v62i2.2069.

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Current linguistic theory presumes languages to be essentially similar because individuals have a genetic inclination to acquire language. Linguists strive to create a model of this abstract universal grammar that captures the core commonalities among different languages while allowing room for all the subtle differences that naturally occur in human speech. This all-encompassing theory of universal grammar would accurately distinguish between possible grammars and impossible grammars. This paper examines the main tenets of the two major generative phonology models of universal grammar: SPE’s Generative Phonology theory representing rule-based, derivational universal grammar models, and Optimality Theory as a representative of constraint-based models of universal grammar.

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Ranta, Aarne. "Type Theory and Universal Grammar." Philosophia Scientae, CS 6 (September 1, 2006): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.415.

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MEISEL, Jürgen M. "Revisiting Universal Grammar." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 16, spe (2000): 129–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44502000000300005.

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This paper sketches various specific scenarios within the Principles and Parameter Theory under which the question of whether Universal Grammar remains accessible to second language learners should be addressed. It also discusses some implications of several approaches to this issue and offers some speculation as to how the question is to be reformulated in the context of the Minimalist Program.

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Shang, Jing, and Sheng Cui. "Universal Grammar and Universal Grammar’s Influence and Related Theories Concerning Second Language Acquisition." Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 7, no. 07 (July 2, 2024): 182–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2024.v07i07.002.

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Universal Grammar, represented by Chomsky, believes that the human brain is born with a Language Acquisition Device. Under the stimulation of the language environment, the language function of the human brain dedicated to language learning will be activated and begin to acquire a language. Universal grammar is the core idea of Chomsky's generative linguistics theory, which is composed of a limited number of syntactic principles representing the common features of human language. It is precisely because the human brain naturally generates this universal grammar that human beings can acquire their own mother tongue when language input is poor or even lacks "negative corpus" (that is, the indication of language errors or faults). Chomsky once proposed a simple language acquisition model, namely "language input —Language Acquisition Device —language acquisition", which means that language input generates grammar through Language Acquisition Device, thus acquiring language. It is worth noting that Chomsky's theory is not specifically designed for the study of Second Language Acquisition, and he himself has not given any guidance in this field, but it provides theoretical support for the theory of Second Language Acquisition (Yang Chunyuan, 2020). Hence, learning the whole semester’s course of Second Language Acquisition, having seen universal grammar as a important content in my textbook, this paper tries to integrate these related theories and make a conclusion and comment or paraphrasing（not all the bibliographies are quoted directly in this paper, paraphrased or arranged instead）based on various bibliographies.

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HAWKINS, ROGER. "The contribution of the theory of Universal Grammar to our understanding of the acquisition of French as a second language." Journal of French Language Studies 14, no. 3 (November 2004): 233–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269504001784.

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Human beings have a genetically-determined capacity to walk, rather than to fly or swim. People can learn to swim, but it is not something that is genetically programmed. Do humans have a genetically-determined capacity to acquire language? Universal Grammar is a theory that assumes that they do. Except in cases of genetic disorder, humans have specialised mental architecture which is uniform across the species in its initial state, and which determines the ways in which samples of language encountered are converted into mental grammars. The specialised architecture is Universal Grammar, and it underlies our capacity to acquire particular languages like English, French, Chinese and so on. Two questions that need to be asked immediately about Universal Grammar if it is to be of any interest in understanding the acquisition of French as a second language are: (i) What evidence is there that Universal Grammar is operating when people who have already acquired a native language learn French as a second language? (ii) What insight does the adoption of a theory of Universal Grammar bring to understanding the processes involved, the course of development over time and the nature of the end state grammars that learners achieve? The article presents empirical evidence from a selection of studies bearing on these questions. It will be argued that the assumption that humans have mental architecture dedicated specifically to language acquisition – Universal Grammar – even in the case of second language acquisition, has allowed considerable progress to be made in understanding second language French.

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Cook, Vivian. "Universal grammar theory and the classroom." System 17, no. 2 (January 1989): 169–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0346-251x(89)90031-6.

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Archangeli, Diana. "Aspects of underspecification theory." Phonology 5, no. 2 (August 1988): 183–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675700002268.

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An evaluation metric in Universal Grammar provides a means of selecting between possible grammars for a particular language. The evaluation metric as conceived in Chomsky & Halle (1968; henceforthSPE) prefers the grammar in which only the idiosyncratic properties are lexically listed and predictable properties are derived. The essence of underspecification theory is to supply such predictable distinctive features or feature specifications by rule. Viewed in this way, the general idea of underspecification has always been a part of any theory of phonology that includes such an evaluation metric.

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Telkova, Valentina Alekseevna. "The ideas of universal grammar in the area of syntax and their reflection in the Russian educational materials of the early XIX century." Филология: научные исследования, no. 4 (April 2020): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0749.2020.4.30410.

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The subject of this research is the analysis of universal grammar ideas in the area of syntax and their reflection in the Russian educational materials of the early XIX century. The relevance is defined by the fact that writings of the authors of universal grammars contain ideas currently applied in description of fact of language within the framework of generative grammar. View on grammar of A. S. Nikolsky, F. F. Rozanov, L. H. Jacob, I. F. Timkovsky, I. Ornatovsky repeatedly have become the subject of analysis; however, in light on most recent achievements of the theory of linguistics, previous works require revision. Research methodology leans on the theories, which are founded on the principle of historicism in linguistics that allows establishing own patterns in transformation of the subject of research and clearly understands the internal logics of scientific development. With emergence of works of the world renowned American linguist Noam Chomsky, who claimed that his generative grammar is based on the key postulates of universal grammar, the authors of universal grammars have attracted attention once again. The scientific novelty lies in the more objective assessment of the contribution of A. S. Nikolsky, F. F. Rozanov, L. H. Jacob, I. F. Timkovsky, I. Ornatovsky to the development of grammar science, and syntax in particular.  

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Felix, Sascha W. "Universal Grammar in Language Acquisition." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 33, no. 4 (December 1988): 367–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100013189.

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Progress in linguistic theory during the past 20 years has made it increasingly clear that language acquisition must be viewed as an essentially deductive process in which the child analyzes the input data s/he is exposed to on the basis of an innately specified set of restrictive principles — technically known as Universal Grammar — which narrowly constrain the kinds of hypotheses a child will consider vis-à-vis a given set of data (cf. Chomsky 1980, 1981, 1986; Hornstein and Lightfoot 1981; White 1982; Felix 1987). As a consequence, there is a growing interest in the question of how exactly principles of Universal Grammar interact with the child’s linguistic experience during the course of language acquisition (see e.g., Pinker 1984; Hyams 1986; Lust 1986b; Roeper and Williams 1987 among others for some more recent proposals). It appears that there are currently at least two competing views about the nature of this interaction. One of these views which I shall call “perceptionism” holds that the task of Universal Grammar (UG) is essentially restricted to constraining the types of intermediate grammars that the child will construct, while the developmental process itself is essentially data-driven, i.e., driven by the child’s (changing) perception of the external evidence. The other view which may be termed “maturationism” claims that UG is both responsible for the types of (intermediate) grammars that in principle may emerge and at the same time for the specific nature of the developmental process. Under the maturationist view language acquisition is therefore seen as a process that is driven primarily by internal, i.e., biologically determined maturational mechanisms.

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Newmeyer, Frederick J. "Typological evidence and Universal Grammar." What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics? 28, no. 3 (September 14, 2004): 527–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.28.3.04new.

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The paper discusses the relevance of typological evidence for the construction of a theory of Universal Grammar (UG). After introducing UG-based approaches to typology, it goes on to argue that most typological generalizations are in no sense ‘knowledge of language’. In fact, some of the best-established typological generalizations have explanations based on language use, and so it is either empirically unmotivated or redundant to attempt to encompass them within UG theory. This conclusion is reinforced by a look at the widely-accepted Lexical Parameterization Hypothesis and by the current shift of interest to ‘microparameters’. The paper goes on to take a critical look at Mark Baker’s Parameter Hierarchy.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Theory universal grammar"

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Ura, Hiroyuki. "Checking theory and grammatical functions in universal grammar /." New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/99023232-d.html.

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Kang, Nam-Kil. "Reflexives and the linking theory in universal grammar." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322750.

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Tellier, Christine. "Universal licensing : implications for parasitic gap constructions." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75902.

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This dissertation investigates, within a Government-Binding framework, the licensing mechanisms which regulate the distribution of sentence-internal constituents. It is proposed that the licensing requirements apply across components, in the spirit of the Projection Principle of Chomsky (1981). Under the extended view of licensing proposed here ("Universal Licensing"), maximal projections must comply with the appropriate licensing requirements at every syntactic level of representation.
This allows for a more constrained model of grammar, under which a number of facts follow in a principled way; this is the case particularly with respect to constructions involving null operators. Thus, from the D- and S-Structure conditions on null operator licensing, we derive the cross-linguistic as well as the language-internal distribution of resumptive pronouns. Furthermore, some of the well-known, but so far stipulated, constraints on parasitic gap (PG) constructions are shown to follow from general principles: we explain for instance the fact that PGs must be sanctioned at S-Structure, as well as the inability of adjunct movement to license PGs.
The consequences of Universal Licensing on the distribution of PGs are examined with particular reference to adnominal PGs in French genitival relatives. It is shown that the properties displayed by these little-studied ("double dont") constructions, in conjunction with the Universal Licensing Principle, shed significant light on a number of issues, among which the thematic structure of nominals, and the nature of the locality constraints on null operator identification.

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Traven, David J. "The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1355489166.

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Agoglu, Eser. "Appropriateness Of A Cognitive Approach To Donald Davidson&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12610178/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this study is to discuss the appropriateness of a cognitive approach to Donald Davidson'
s meaning theory. Davidson makes the bold proposal that a truth theory, modified for a natural language, may be treated as a meaning theory for that language. According to Davidson, a meaning theory is an empirical theory. Radical Interpretation is at the center of such an empirical inquiry which places restrictions on the truth theory to make it suitable as a meaning theory without appeal to semantic notions. Davidson&lsquo
s aim in presenting this bold proposal and radical interpretation is to shed light on the concept of meaning, not to define the actual semantic competence of language users. But what Davidson&lsquo
s project does not aim to define is the main thing that a cognitive approach must account for. Whether a truth theory can represent the semantic competence of language users is discussed in this work. It is concluded that, although there is no a priori reason for such a representation claim, the cognitive approach&mdash
with the right assumptions to make the claim testable&mdash
can lead to an empirical research programme.

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Vallati, Giacomo. "An Account of the move in linguistics from the Standard Social Science Model to Usage-Based." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12694/.

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I start by describing the framework of studies that led to Chomsky’s idea of the genetic component of human language. I then examine his contribution to modern linguistics, the Universal Grammar Theory and X-bar theory. A special place is reserved to John Tooby and Leda Cosmides’ introduction to the 1992 volume The Adapted Mind. I later introduce Pinker’s idea of the language instinct, and then proceed to describe his theory of the language of the mind. I conclude my essay by describing the most recent development in the realm of cognitive studies of language acquisition, usage-based linguistics. The description of the different theories follows the chronological order.

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Franco, Ludovico. "Graph Theory and Universal Grammar." Doctoral thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/51876.

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Tese arquivada ao abrigo da Portaria nº 227/2017 de 25 de Julho-Registo de Grau Estrangeiro
In the last few years, Noam Chomsky (1994; 1995; 2000; 2001) has gone quite far in the direction of simplifying syntax, including eliminating X-bar theory and the levels of D-structure and S-structure entirely, as well as reducing movement rules to a combination of the more primitive operations of Copy and Merge. What remain in the Minimalist Program are the operations Merge and Agree and the levels of LF (Logical Form) and PF (Phonological form). My doctoral thesis attempts to offer an economical theory of syntactic structure from a graph-theoretic point of view (cf. Diestel, 2005), with special emphases on the elimination of category and projection labels and the Inclusiveness Condition (Chomsky 1994). The major influences for the development of such a theory have been Chris Collins’ (2002) seminal paper “Eliminating labels”, John Bowers (2001) unpublished manuscript “Syntactic Relations” and the Cartographic Paradigm (see Belletti, Cinque and Rizzi’s volumes on OUP for a starting point regarding this paradigm). A syntactic structure will be regarded here as a graph consisting of the set of lexical items, the set of relations among them and nothing more.

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FRANCO, LUDOVICO. "Graph theory and Universal Grammar." Doctoral thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1007632.

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Dvořáková, Jana. "K interferenci češtiny, ruštiny a angličtiny v jazykové výuce." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-312287.

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The thesis deals with second language acquisition (SLA) of Czech in Russian and English students. It presents the main theories of SLA (generative and cognitive approaches) and compares them to the results of author's research into L2 acquisition of Czech morphology and syntax in speakers of two typologically and structurally different mothertongues. It shows that language transfer plays an important role in SLA and that some of the generative assumptions about SLA that are claimed to apply universally cannot be proven for Czech.

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Books on the topic "Theory universal grammar"

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Baban, Şêrko. Engineering phonology: A universal phonological theory. Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan: Minara Press, 2010.

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Doug, Arnold, ed. Essays on grammatical theory and universal grammar. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1989.

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Doug, Arnold, ed. Essays on grammatical theory and universal grammar. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.

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Baban, Şêrko. Vowel power theory: A universal theory deduced from Kurdish phonology. Erbil, Kurdistan Region - Iraq: Dar Erbil, 2013.

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name, No. Meaning and universal grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002.

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Cliff, Goddard, and Wierzbicka Anna, eds. Meaning and universal grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub., 2002.

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Hendrick, Randall. Anaphora in Celtic and universal grammar. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.

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A, Hulk, and Pollock J. -Y, eds. Subject inversion in Romance and the theory of universal grammar. Oxford, [England]: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Gadelii, Karl Erland. Lesser Antillean French Creole and universal grammar. [Göteborg]: Dept. of Linguistics, Göteborg University, 1997.

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Baban, Şêrko. Engineering phonology: The phonemic junction faculty in a universal phonological theory. 2nd ed. Erbil: Wezaretî R̄oşinbîrî w Lawan, Berêweberayetî Giştî R̄ojnamenûsî w Çap u Biławkirdinewe, Berêweberayetî Biławkirdinewey Hewlêr, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Theory universal grammar"

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Luuk, Erkki. "Type Theory and Universal Grammar." In Software Engineering and Formal Methods, 180–94. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57506-9_14.

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Li, Yen-Hui Audrey. "Universal Grammar and Word Order." In Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1–15. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1898-6_1.

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Vanderveken, Daniel. "Chapter 2. Universal Grammar and Speech Act Theory." In Essays in Speech Act Theory, 25–62. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.77.03van.

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White, Lydia. "Linguistic Theory, Universal Grammar, and Second Language Acquisition." In Theories in Second Language Acquisition, 19–39. Third edition. | New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. | Series: Second language acquisition research: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429503986-2.

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Goodall, Grant. "X'-internal word order in Mandarin Chinese and universal grammar." In Theory and Experiment in Syntax, 77–96. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003160144-8.

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Leclerc, André. "Chapter 3. Verbal Mood and Sentence Moods in the Tradition of Universal Grammar." In Essays in Speech Act Theory, 63–84. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.77.04lec.

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Kapur, Shyam, Barbara Lust, Wayne Harbert, and Gita Martohardjono. "Universal Grammar and Learnability Theory: The Case of Binding Domains and the ‘Subset Principle’." In Knowledge and Language, 185–216. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1840-8_9.

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Lust, Barbara. "Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition: Promises and Problems in Critically Relating Theory and Empirical Studies." In Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 309–28. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2733-9_17.

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Kim, Min-Joo. "Introduction." In The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Modifiers and the Theory of Universal Grammar, 1–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05886-9_1.

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Kim, Min-Joo. "Adnominal Adjectival Classes in Korean." In The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Modifiers and the Theory of Universal Grammar, 17–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05886-9_2.

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Conference papers on the topic "Theory universal grammar"

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Hucke, Danny, and Markus Lohrey. "Universal tree source coding using grammar-based compression." In 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isit.2017.8006830.

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