Chomsky
Structural Approach
Mentalist Approach
Universal Grammar
Political Views
100
The first name of Chomsky the linguist.
What is Noam?
100
The linguist who introduced the Structural Approach.
Who is Bloomfield?
100
The first linguist to fully take the considerations of language learning from the beginning, the actual practices of most early generative transformational linguists until, around 1970, seemed to be for the most part be unaffected by such considerations.
Who is Chomsky?
100
Another term for Language Acquisition.
What is Universal Grammar?
100
Revolves around "nourishing the libertarian and creative character of the human being".
What is Chomsky's ideological position?
200
The thing Chomsky believed motivates language learning.
What is the internal capacity to acquire language?
200
Refers to an actual utterance that can be broken down by conventional methods of syntactic analysis.
What is structural approach?
200
An observation made of this approach states,"The syntactical core of any language is so complicated and so specific in its form, so unlike other kinds of knowledge, that no child could learn it unless he already had the form of the grammar programmed into his brain, unless, that is, he had 'perfect knowledge of a universal grammar'."
What is the Mentalist Approach?
200
An innate, language-specific module which effectively pre-programmed children to learn language.
What is Language Acquisition Device?
200
The political system that Chomsky is a strong advocate for.
What is democracy?
300
The name of the book written by Chomsky in 1957.
What is Syntactic Structures?
300
An early Chomskian linguistics that was noticed to transform into surface structure.
What is deep structure?
300
An area emphasized by Chomsky consisting of linguistic competence, or what the speaker subconsciously knows about his or her language.
What is the Deep Structure?
300
Influence of Bloomfieldian structural linguistics declined in the late 1950s and 1960s as this theory developed by Noam Chomsky came to predominate.
What is Universal Grammar?
300
Chomsky stated, "with regard to freedom of speech there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it and prefer Stalinist/fascist standards" as an opposition to this.
What is censorship?
400
The day Chomsky was born.
What is December 7, 1928?
400
the two areas of language where Chomsky agrees with the structural approach.
What is phonology and morphology?
400
The mentalist approach postulates that this is like a software program designed to generate new sentences on demand.
What is the human mind?
400
They seek to refine and test abstract linguistic descriptions found from Universal Grammar.
Who are Generative linguists?
400
The American system that Chomsky is critical of
What is the state capitalist system?
500
Where Chomsky has worked since 1955.
What is MIT?
500
The inadequacy in explaining complex and/or ambiguous sentences.
What is Chomsky's key objections to the structural approach?
500
The primary opposition to the mentalist approach.
What is the structural approach or behaviorist approach?
500
Genetic endowment, external data, and principles not specific to the faculty of language.
What are the three factors Chomsky believes are necessary for the development of language?
500
the political party Chomsky is most associated with.
What is the anarchists?
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