The aim of universal grammar is to establish a single __________ that applies to all rules.
What is principle?
100
This is the number of grammatical systems that govern all world languages according to Chomsky's writings on minimalism.
What is one?
100
This kind of sentence could never be produced by generative grammar.
What is ungrammatical?
100
Chomsky argues that language is _______________ of other faculties of the mind.
What is independent?
100
This is the term for universal rules applying to all languages.
What are principles?
200
Universal Grammar serves as the basis for Chomsky's view that language is _______________.
What is innate?
200
Chomskian minimalism dispenses with these two structural elements from his earlier writings on syntax.
What are deep structure and surface structure?
200
Generative grammar contains a finite set of these.
What are rules?
200
The "black box" that transforms linguistic input into generative grammar was called this by Chomsky.
What is Language Acquisition Device?
200
Features of specific languages come about as a result of these limitations.
What are parameters?
300
Chomsky asserts that the development of a language acquisition device is a result of this.
What is evolution?
300
In this 1995 book, Chomsky introduced his conception of minimalism.
What is The Minimalist Program?
300
These scientists believed that language is acquired by memorization of representative phrases and extrapolation based on analogy to the memorized sentences.
Who are the behavioralists?
300
The idea that the mind is divided into several compartments, of which the language faculty is one, can also be called this.
What is modularity?
300
Children learn parameters mainly from their_____________.
What is environment?
400
This is the American linguist who believed that language is learned through mimicry, as challenged by Chomsky's mentalist approach.
Who is Leonard Bloomfield?
400
This Dutch author and psycholinguist denounced Chomsky's minimalism as "spurious science".
Who is Pieter Seuren?
400
According to Chomsky, this property of language allows for infinite productivity.
What is recursion?
400
The argument that environmental learning is insufficient to explain language acquisition is known as this.
What is poverty-of-the-stimulus?
400
This is another name for the pro-drop parameter.
What is the null subject parameter?
500
This principle of UG states that knowledge of language relies on structural relationships within the sentence rather than on word order.
What is structure-dependency?
500
According to Pieter Seuren, Chomsky's minimalist framework is primarily deficient in that it fails to consider these two aspects of language.
What are communicative function and social context?
500
The main difference between traditional grammar rules and those of generative grammar is that the latter of not rely on the speaker's ______________ of the language.
What is knowledge?
500
The discovery of this gene and its involvement in language acquisition may support Chomsky's notion of an innate predisposition for language.
What is FoxP2?
500
This is the name for the parameter that states whether the essential element in a phrase occurs first or last.