This approach minimizes the significance of imitation during language acquisition and puts emphasis on the capacity of the child’s knowledge.
What is the mentalist approach?
100
These are the constants of human language.
What are principles?
100
These two concepts differentiating Bloomfieldian Linguistics and Chomskian linguistics are rejected by the minimalist program.
What is deep structure and surface structure?
100
This is made up of unconscious restrictions that determine whether a sentence is grammatically correct.
What is universal grammar?
100
The amount of subconscious rules that create all grammatically correct sentences.
What is the term finite?
200
This is stressed in the mentalist approach.
What is subconscious knowledge?
200
These are the narrowly limited deviations among human language.
What are parameters?
200
The amount of grammatical system(s) that minimalism claims there is/are.
What is the number one?
200
A human of this age can possess linguistic abilities that allow them to learn an intricate language.
What is a newborn?
200
This property allows for productivity by repeatedly including a syntactic structure within another one.
What is recursion?
300
This is the opposite of the mentalist approach.
What is the mechanistic approach?
300
These are typically unaffected by a child’s environment during development.
What are principles?
300
The unconventional adjective that minimalism claims our system of communication is.
What is the term optimal?
300
This program mitigated Chomsky's idea of universal language.
What is the minimalist program?
300
Generative grammar is partially based on this subject.
What is mathematics?
400
The mentalist approach allows for this, while the mechanistic approach does not. It is fundamental in the creation of new sentences.
What is productivity?
400
These are typically learned from observation.
What are parameters?
400
These are replaced by a single multifunctional system that creates an equivalent amount of intricate sentences.
What are transformations?
400
Despite this fact, certain sentences are believed to be correct compared to others.
What is varied mental grammar across languages?
400
Generative grammar is not this since it is not the actual use of language.
What is linguistic performance?
500
This approach came from the mentalist theory about language acquisition.
What is the Principles and Parameters model?
500
This is the former term for the principles and parameters approach. This term showed the importance of the concepts of binding and government.
What is the Government-Binding theory?
500
Minimalism is an example of this type of approach to syntax.
What is the Principles and Parameters theory?
500
Due to universal grammar, we still find this type of sentence grammatically correct although we cannot understand it. An example is "The happy rock ate the food."
What is the term nonsensical?
500
Generative grammar is focused on this since it strives to understand our knowledge of language.