This process allows for one structural part to be embedded within another part and thus sentences can be expanded indefinitely.
What is recursion?
100
This book published in 1957 broke away from Bloomfield's structural approach to linguistics study and rather looked at language from a mental approach.
What is Syntactic Structures?
100
This feature is a key component of universal grammar.
What is biological component?
100
This phrase in Chomsky's Syntactic Structures shows how a sentence can be grammatically correct but not make sense.
What is "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"?
100
Noam Chomsky was born in this year
What is 1928?
200
This theory states that children are born with the ability to learn language due to a wiring within the brain.
What is language acquisition device?
200
This book published in the 1960's provides an overview of Chomsky's view that language has a biological component.
What is Language and Mind?
200
This organ is where language rules must be located.
What is the brain?
200
This book originally sparked Chomsky's questions of language when he noticed a mistranslation from Hebrew to English.
What is the Bible?
200
In this year, Chomsky received his doctorate.
What is 1955?
300
Chomsky abandoned this method of analyzing language in favor of a mentalist approach.
What is mechanistic or structural approach?
300
This book provides an overview of Chomsky's theory of transformational generative grammar linking the deep and surface structures of language.
What is Aspects of the Theory of Syntax?
300
All human languages have these two components.
What is noun and verb?
300
Chomsky, while well known in the field of linguistics, is equally well known in this field
What is political activism?
300
In this year and month, it was announced Chomsky will be leaving MIT and working at University of Arizona.
What is August 2017?
400
This grammar provides a set number of rules that when applied could produce an unlimited number of utterances.
What is generative grammar?
400
In this radical book in the 1990's, Chomsky explains language as a program as opposed to a theory.
What is The Minimalist Program?
400
This gene, recently discovered, gives credit to Chomsky's theory that language must have a biological component.
What is Fox2P gene?
400
In the 1950's Chomsky wrote a harsh review of this author's book titled Verbal Behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
400
In this year, Chomsky wrote The Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.
What is 1965?
500
This theory of grammar states there is a genetic component that children are born with to understand rules such as word order.
What is universal grammar?
500
This book, co-written with computer scientist Robert Berwick, raises questions how humans learn language.
What is Why Only Us?
500
Chomsky believes that UG must have a genetic component or else it must be this.
What is a miracle?
500
Noam Chomsky was born in this US state.
What is Pennsylvania?
500
In this year, Chomsky wrote The Minimalist Program.