Chomsky
What's Chomsky's full name?
Noam Chomsky
What is UG?
Defining characteristics of I-language
What type of system is the Faculty of Language?
Biologically endowed system
Are all aspects of language universal?
No, they are not.
Describe competence x performance.
Competence is a fluent speaker's tacit or in other words subconscious knowledge of their language
What are the main criteria of adequacy for UG?
What is the output of Faculty of Language.
Grammar of language
What type of evidence is primarily relied upon in the parameter setting?
Positive evidence
What type of approach did Chomsky want to use for figuring out the characteristics of the nature of I-language?
Cognitive approach
What's I-language?
Theoretical construct used to formally describe that knowledge
What is the input to Faculty of Language?
Linguistic experience
How is acquisition conceptualized?
As a series of switches.
What does the Minimalist program for linguistic theory focus on?
It focuses on the requirement minimize the theoretical and descriptive apparatus used to describe language.
What is meant by the UG theory needing to be maximally constrained?
The technical devices need to be limited to the point that they can only be used to describe natural languages, excluding the non-linguistic systems.
What is the critical period of FL?
After the age of 9 - 10 => hardly achievable syntactic competence
What two types of languages (in terms of the head position) exist?
Head-first languages
Head-last languages
What is Chomsky's ultimate goal?
Chomsky's ultimate goal is to devise a theory of Universal Grammar.
What planet was presented on the slide with Criteria of Adequacy?
What does the Faculty of Language incorporate?
A theory of UG
''Grammatical variation constrained to narrow range of possibilities'' is the definition of which hypothesis?
The Binary Hypothesis