UniversalGrammar
Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Theory
Generative Grammar
Chomsky's Minimalism
True / False
100
Universal grammar is also know as this.
What is "mental grammar"?
100
These frameworks represent the grammar of a language and the precise markers of a language.
What is principles and parameters?
100
Linguistics who follow the generative grammar approach are called this.
What is generativists?
100
This offers a conceptual outline used to guide the development of linguistic theory.
What is minimalist program?
100
During adulthood, generative grammar affects people the most.
What is false?
200
According to Chomsky, this structure is the same in all languages.
What is deep structure?
200
This is where children mainly learn parameters from.
What is environment?
200
Generative grammar is also known as this.
What is transformational-generative grammar?
200
The minimalist program works in the supposition that this has just what is needed to meet our conceptual and physical needs.
What is universal grammar?
200
Chomsky was an European professor of linguistics and human right activist.
What is false?
300
Chomsky suggests that language mastery is not learned but _____ ______.
What is genetically determined?
300
Pro-drop parameter is also known as ....
What is Null subject parameter?
300
According to Chomsky, an infinite number of sentences can be produced and understood by a native speaker of a language on a set of these.
What is grammatical rules and principals?
300
What structures came out when Chomsky developed the Minimalist program?
What is surface and deep structure?
300
Transformational grammar was postulated by Chomsky.
What is true?
400
This part of language allows a rule to be repeated so that humans can insert one syntactic category within another.
What is recursion?
400
This feature explains the reason why second language learners hardly ever sound like native speakers.
What is phonological features of language?
400
The generative school focuses on the study of syntax, and other aspects of language's structure such as ____ and ____.
What is morphology and phonology?
400
In what year did Chomsky stated evolving the minimalist program?
What is 1990?
400
Principles are the points of cross-linguistic variations.
What is false?
500
According to Chomsky, these are the three factors that are involved in the language development of individuals?
What is genetic endowment, external data and principles not specific to the Faculty of Language?
500
This is the element that determines the category of a phrase.
What is the head?
500
This is at the higher level of complexity in the Chomsky hierarchy and suggests that a sentence is not a string of words but a hierarchy with subordinate and superordinate branches connected at nodes.
What is contest-free grammars?
500
Within minimalist grammar, the Y-model or T-model of grammar are part of these.
What is Phonetic Form or Logical Form?
500
Phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics are components of generative grammar.
What is true?
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