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Universal Grammar
Generative Grammar
Phrase Structure Rules
Transformational Grammar
Combination
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A question concerning language acquisition and how the human mind develops from a primitive state to a complex and matured state.
What is Plato's Problem?
100
The smallest meaningful unit in language that cannot be broken down further without losing meaning.
What is a morpheme?
100
A phrase that can act as a subject, direct or indirect object, and object of the preposition.
What is a noun phrase?
100
The basic meaning behind the actual utterance, relating to the speaker’s subconscious knowledge of their language.
What is deep structure?
100
A word that categorizes a phrase as being a noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, etc.
What is the head of a phrase?
200
A philosophical method and theory relating to epistemology from which universal grammar is based.
What is rationalism?
200
A process that allows for infinitely long sentences and generates productivity in language.
What is recursion?
200
A modifying word that indicates whether a noun is referring to something specific or not.
What is a determiner?
200
Rules that transform the basic meaning of an utterance into an actual sentence.
What are transformational rules?
200
A basis for language acquisition and the theory that the ability to learn grammar is innate.
What is universal grammar?
300
An argument relating to children that natural language is not the product of a general learning device.
What is poverty of the stimulus?
300
It contains one simple sentence and one or more clauses that cannot stand alone.
What is a complex sentence?
300
A phrase that modifies a noun.
What is an adjective phrase?
300
The speaker’s actual utterance, relating to their linguistic performance.
What is surface structure?
300
A focus on the transformation from deep structure to surface structure and the relation between the two.
What is transformational grammar?
400
This philosopher's idea's on the human mind and it's innateness has relation to universal grammar.
Who is Kant?
400
The ability for humans to understand new sentences and phrases.
What is productivity?
400
A phrase that modifies a verb in various ways such as duration, frequency, manner, purpose, or time.
What is an adverb phrase?
400
Movement, deletion, insertion, and substitutions.
What are transformations?
400
Rules that allow for the creation of an infinite number of grammatical sentences using the recursive properties of language.
What is generative grammar?
500
Variations in language have specific limitations.
What is the principles and parameters theory?
500
The ability for people to create new words, phrases, or sentences.
What is openness?
500
A phrase that is present in every English sentence, conveys an action and often includes a noun phrase.
What is a verb phrase?
500
A type of transformation that replaces another part of speech with a pronoun.
What is substitution?
500
Rules that dictate how combined units are arranged together.
What are phrase structure rules?