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Literature
100
Chomsky believes all human beings possess a species-specific this
What is Language Acquisition Device
100
This other linguist also believed that there is potential for a language acquisition device to exist in humans
Who is Eric Lenneberg
100
This program developed in the early 1990s featured the inorganic world and the organic world
What is Minimalist
100
This year marked the time Chomsky argued against a behaviouristic account of language acquisition in B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior
What is 1959
100
This volume most extensively discussed the idea of Plato’s or Russell’s problem
What is Knowledge of Language
200
This is the field of science that the language acquisition device deals with most
What is Biology
200
Lenneberg proposed this hypothesis that believed the language acquisition device ceased to function after puberty
What is The Critical Period
200
Chomsky believed 90% of this should be used by teachers when teaching to children
What is Motivation
200
This specific operation in the 1970s made it more difficult to explain language acquisition
What is Transformational
200
This book represented the first time Chomsky began to explore the question of language acquisition
What is Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
300
This is the part of language that the LAD supposedly helps children with
What is Grammar
300
This is the professor who many believe influenced Chomsky the most in his pursuit of LAD
Who is Zellig S. Harris
300
This is the argument against the idea that humans learn a language based off imitation
What is The Poverty of Stimulus
300
Chomsky’s work on LAD contrasted with B.F. Skinner’s behaviorist work and this individual’s views on the development of intelligence
Who is Jean Piaget
300
Some argue that Chomsky’s PhD thesis attributed to the start of his LAD exploration, the title of the thesis being this
What is Syntactic Structures and Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
400
This is one of Chomsky’s original claims for developing his language acquisition device hypothesis
What is Innateness
400
In her Symposium, Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science, Margaret Boden coins this term to refer to Chomsky supporters
What is Chomskyans
400
This bilingual language acquisition hypothesis is the opposite of the unitary system hypothesis
What is The Separate Systems Hypothesis
400
This consequence makes it impossible to work with Chomsky’s language acquisition device
What is CETI
400
The first modern work on generative grammar was on this
What is Hebrew
500
This hypothesis evolved from the original thought of the language acquisition device
What is Universal Grammar
500
This is the problem of how human beings come to know so much, given that their contacts with the world are so limited
What is Plato’s or Russell’s
500
There is some evidence that supports the language acquisition device because the infant brain is seeking this
What is Rhythmic Structures
500
This formula may be read as follows: if possessing innate linguistic knowledge is the only way to learn a first language, then two or more groups of beings that developed language independently will be unable to learn each other’s language…if Chomsky is right, then CETI is doomed to failure
What is (~CO & IH*)-->~AL
500
The first generative grammar published was on this
What is Hidatsa
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