Grammar
Language
Perspectives & Approaches
Theories
Quotes & History
100
A system of rules and principles that assigns structural descriptions to linguistic expressions.
What is Generative Grammar.
100
The ability and property of language that can create infinitely long sentences.
What is Recursion.
100
In the Biolinguistic Perspective, this is regarded as an organ of the mind.
What is language faculty.
100
This theory suggests there is a preprogrammed internal capacity to learn language.
What is the Innateness Hypothesis.
100
Chomsky states that language has fixed laws and principles, but is a process of this.
What is Free Creation.
200
This refers to the genetic component of the human language faculty characterized by a theory of principles and parameters.
What is Universal Grammar.
200
The universal capacity of human language learning ability driven by an internal capacity to acquire language.
What is an innate language acquisition device.
200
This approach stresses a rigid set of rules that are learned and used to form grammatical utterances
What is Mechanistic approach.
200
Chomsky opposed this theory that was based on a structural approach to language.
What is Bloomfieldian Linguistics.
200
It was this decade that Chomsky transformed the study of language.
What is the 1950's.
300
A hierarchy of categories derived from a generative grammar
What is a Degree of grammaticalness.
300
Chomsky referred to the individual, internal, and intensional tacit knowledge of language more simply know as this.
What is I-Language.
300
The type of structure emphasized in the Mentalist approach.
What is Deep structure.
300
Chomsky's theory that suggests that are limitations to the variations in languages.
What is Principles and Parameters.
300
The school where Chomsky gave his legendary presentation on Information Theory.
What is MIT.
400
The requirement for development of grammar in humans that maps a body of experience into particular grammar.
What is Biological endowment.
400
In the BBC interview, Chomsky refers to language as being grown in the mind which is also a system of this.
What is mental organs.
400
The type of structure emphasized by the Mechanistic approach.
What is Surface structure.
400
The number of factors that Chomsky theorizes are involved in language.
What is Three.
400
This is the school where Chomsky was a graduate student.
What is Harvard.
500
An attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
What is Descriptive grammar.
500
This approach is the subconscious knowledge of the native speakers of the language emphasized.
What is Mentalist.
500
Perspectives of Biolinguistics view a person’s language as a state of this cognitive faculty or component more commonly referred to as this.
What is the Mind.
500
Chomsky's view that motivation to learn language doesn't come externally but instead this.
What is Internally.
500
The most recent theory presented by Chomsky in the last 20 years.
What is Minimalism.
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