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Noam Chomsky Facts
Terminology
Chomsky's Linguistics
Grammar
Theories of Language
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Chomsky, known as the father of modern linguistics, was also one of the founders of this field of study
What is cognitive science
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the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate
What is Language acquisition
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These other two fields of study greatly influenced Noam Chomsky and his development of linguistic theories
What are Mathematics and Logic
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This process allows for the repetition of noun phrases and can result in potentially infinitely long sentences
What is Recursion
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What are the two major schools of thought
What are behaviorists and mentalists
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Chomsky has abandoned his previous ideas in order to pursue this modern approach to linguistics that attempts to show how all human beings have the same basic innate rules governing them
What is the minimalist project
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the theory of the genetic component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky. The basic postulate of UG is that a certain set of structural rules are innate to humans, independent of sensory experience.
What is universal grammar
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This structure uses a grouping of formal grammars to establish a logical structure across different languages to establish a relationship between their grammar
What is Chomsky Hierarchy
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Refers to an actual utterance that can be broken down by conventional methods of syntactic analysis
What is Surface Structure
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Rebukes and punishments are known as
What is Negative Reinforcement
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Chomsky received his MA from this University in 1951
What is University of Pennsylvania
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the study of linguistics, part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of naturally evolved languages, that considers grammar to be a system of rules that generate exactly those combinations of words which form grammatical sentences in a given language.
What is Transformational grammar
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This type of grammar uses a limited series of rules to change deep structures into surface structures thus relating meaning and sound
What is transformational grammar
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Refers to a highly abstract level of language that represents the basic meaning of a sentence.
What is Deep Structure
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A child is born with some innate mental capacity which helps which helps the child to process all of the language which he hears
What is language acquisition device
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This groundbreaking Chomsky book paved the way for the scientific study of language
What is Syntactic Structures
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an American linguist,philosopher,cognitive scientist and social activist. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics and a major figure of analitic philosophy.
Who is Noam Chomsky
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This approach to linguistics suggests that all humanity possess an innate knowledge of basic grammatical rules
What is Universal Grammar
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A limitation on the use of a morpheme
What is a co-occurrence
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Chomsky talks about unconscious rules in a child's mind
What is mental grammar
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Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus at this prestigious American University
What is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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a set of formation rules for strings in a formal language. The rules describe how to form strings from the language’s alphabet that are valid according to the language’s syntax. A grammar does not describe the meaning of the strings or what can be done with them in whatever context—only their form.
What is Formal Grammar
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Chomsky labeled the innate human ability to develop language when equipped with a set on linguistic data this
What is Language Acquisition Device
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Rules that specify how constituents of an utterance are arranged and what constituents can occur as parts of other constituents.
What are phrase structure rules
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Chomsky and his mentalist followers claim that a child learns their first language through
What is cognitive learning