This refers to a finite set of rules that could hypothetically generate an infinite number of utterances.
What is generative grammar?
100
According to Chomsky's theory, the LAD is found in this human organ which allows children to acquire language.
What is the brain?
100
According to Chomsky, human language mastery is __________ ___________ rather than learned.
What is genetically determined?
100
Scientist have found that if the FoxP2 gene is defective, it will cause problems in the development of this?
What is acquisition of language and speech?
100
A sentence can be described by listing a series of phrase structure rules, starting with the most ________ and ending with the most __________ rules.
What is general and specific?
200
Chomsky noted that an infinite number of different possible sentences can be produced and understood by the native speakers of a language on the basis of a finite set of these?
What is grammatical rules and principals?
200
According to Chomsky, the language acquisition device aids children’s language learning and is triggered by ___________ _________ from the environment.
What is verbal input?
200
Universal grammar is sometimes know as this?
What is mental grammar?
200
The FoxP2 gene is found in this human chromosome.
What is chromosome 7?
300
This is the property of language that allows for productivity by permitting the repeated application of a rule, so that people can embed one syntactic category endlessly within another.
What is recursion?
300
Chomsky suggests that the LAD contains a set of these, which allows it to learn any language if exposed to utterances of that language.
What is universal grammatical rules?
300
Chomsky argues that the ____________ of all languages is the same.
What is deep structure?
300
The FoxP2 gene was discovered in a study of a large three-generational family suffering from a rare form of this?
What is speech and language impairment?
400
Chomsky proclaimed that the syntax of a language can be formalized in a ______________ precise way by means of different rules operating on different levels.
What is mathematically?
400
The LAD theory is in direct opposition with this theory which suggests skills are attained through learning and reinforcement.
What is the behaviorist theory?
400
The theory of UG is supported by this argument which states that each child comes to know certain linguistic facts which s/he could not have possibly learned from the limited linguistic input s/he has received.
What is poverty of the stimulus?
400
According the Chomsky, the FoxP2 gene has nothing to do with language acquisition but instead has to do with this.
What is fine motor coordination?
500
These serve as a framework within generative linguistics in which one represents the abstract rules or grammar and the other represents the specific markers of a particular language.
What are principles and parameters?
500
The LAD concept is a component of this theory of language, which suggests that humans are born with an "innate facility" for acquiring language.
What is the nativist theory?
500
Chomsky argues that language development in the individual involves these three factors.
What is genetic endowment, external data, and principles not specific to the Faculty of Language?