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Language learning is guided by an innate language acquisition device which is a result of ______ _______.
What is human evolution?
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Chomsky began the study of language with his first book
What is Syntactic Structures?
100
Classifying sounds and morphemes in the terms of their function.
What is Bloomfieldian Linguistics?
100
Well known linguist born in 1928
Who is Noam Chomsky?
100
Abstract level of language which represents the meaning of a sentence.
What is deep structure?
200
Deep structure is transformed into the ______
What is Surface structure?
200
General blueprint that allows children to proceed with the general rules of any language.
What is universal grammer?
200
1949
What is the year Bloomfield died?
200
1887
What is the birth year of Leonard Bloomfield?
200
Provides the general rules that allow people, or at least children, to learn any language.
What is Hominids
300
The menatalist approach _______ that the human mind is like a ______ _______.
What is postulates and software program?
300
One single grammatical system for all languages, which eliminates the concepts of deep and surface structure.
What is the mentalist approach?
300
The belief of studing meaning
What is semantics?
300
PP->prep NP
What is recursion?
300
The level of grammer that refers to the arrangement of words and morphemes in the construction of sentences.
What is syntax?
400
Certain aspects of the mind, specifically aspects of language are....
What is Innate
400
An internal capacity to acquire language
What is language learning?
400
A rigid set of rules used to create grammatical utterances.
What is the mechanistic approach?
400
The idea that we have developed what we are going to say before we speak.
What is Transformational-generative grammer
400
A finite set of rules that can generate an infinate number of utterances.
What is gererative grammer?
500
Aspects of language, such as, syntax abilities are biological ______-______ into the brain.
What is hard-wired?
500
Although there is variation in languages, these differences have specific limitations.
What is the Principles and Parameters theory?
500
The mechanistic approach cannot explain many things that are accounted for by the mentalist approach.
What is productivity?
500
The explanation of "how it works" rather that "what is"
What is formal functionality?
500
The actual utterances that can be broken down in conventional methods.
What is surface structure?