Life of Chomsky
Nativism
Development
Biological Evidence
Potpourri
100
The place Chomsky began working in 1955
What is MIT
100
the form of learning that influenced Nativism
What is operant conditioning
100
A place a child learns the content of language but not grammar itself
What is environment
100
The brain, respiratory and auditory systems, and vocal organs are specialized for
What is communication
100
The abstract level of language that is the basic meaning of a sentence
What is deep structure
200
A grammar theory developed by Noam Chomsky in 1957
What is transformative grammar
200
In 1958 this person proposed that children learned language through reinforcement
Who is B.F. Skinner
200
The theory that states that word order is nothing more than superficial in a language
What is Principles and Parameters
200
Name of the gene responsible for language
What is FOX2P
200
The actual words spoken in sentence
What is surface structure
300
Nickname of Chomsky
What is Plato’s Problem
300
In 1977 this person proposed that children imitate the general structure of a sentence, then fill in the blanks with words
Who is Albert Bandura
300
How knowledge of syntax is passed to a child
What is genetically
300
Chomsky's name for the innate language organ
What is Language Acquisition device
300
Developed descriptive structuralism
What is Leonard Bloomfield
400
The year Chomsky graduated with a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania
What is 1955
400
In 1994 this person proposed that language is a natural instinct and programmed in the brain as a survival mechanism
Who is Steven Pinker
400
Chomsky's main criticism of Behaviorism in terms of language acquisition
What is poverty of stimulus
400
Area in the frontal lobe that is associated with speech production
What is Broca's Area of the brain
400
A practice of productivity that allows an individual to continuously embed the same syntactic category within itself
What is recursion
500
Two major influences of Noam Chomsky
Who is Roman Jakobson and Ferdinand de Saussure
500
In 2003 this duo proposed that parents provide better language structure examples than showcased by Chomsky
Who are Kuczaj and Hill
500
The ability to understand and produce phrases that have never been uttered before
What is productivity
500
Despite the varying degrees of these two items, grammar acquisition is possible in most humans in the world
What is Culture and intelligence
500
The time period it is easiest to learn a or several languages
What is birth through puberty
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