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Generative gramma
Semantics
other interest facts
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Noam
What is Chomsky's first name?
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Innate
Chomsky proposed that some aspects of linguistic knowledge are
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Syntax
The Chomskyan approach towards what has been challenged by many, especially those working outside the United States of America
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Avram
What other 'first' name is Chomsky known by?
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Philadelphia
Chomsky was born December 7, 1928 in what US city?
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Children
Chomsky's ideas have had a strong influence on researchers investigating the acquisition of language of what group?
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Four
A classical generative grammar consists of how many elements?
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60s
The approach out of transformational generative grammar was developed in the mid ____.
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Carol Chomsky or Judith Chomsky
Name of Chomsky's wife.
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linguistics
What is area of study did Chomsky receive his degree in at Univ. of Pennsylvania?
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Universal Grammar
Chomsky claims that the grammatical principles underlying languages are innate and fixed, and the differences among the world's languages can be characterized in terms of parameter settings in the brain (such as the pro-drop parameter, which indicates whether an explicit subject is always required, as in English, or can be optionally dropped, as in Spanish), which are often likened to switches. What is this called?
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mathematical equations
Based partially on __________ generative grammar is a set of rules that provide a framework for all the grammatically possible sentences in a language, excluding those which would be considered ungrammatical.
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study of the relationship between words and meanings.
What is semantics?
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(Lexington), Massachusetts
where does Chomsky reside?
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MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chomsky has been teaching Modern Languages and Linguistics for over 50 years and has been appointed Institute Professor at what college/university?
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Principles and Parameters
What is the approach that Chomsky developed in 1979?
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transformational grammar,
Early versions of Chomsky's theory were called _______; term is still used as a collective term that includes his subsequent theories.
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externalism
Chomsky‟s semantic internalism sharply contrasts with the _______ of most naturalistically inclined philosophers of mind and language.
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Chomsky hierarchy
Chomsky is famous for investigating various kinds of formal languages and whether or not they might be capable of capturing key properties of human language. What partitions formal grammars into classes, or groups, with increasing expressive power, i.e., each successive class can generate a broader set of formal languages than the one before.
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libertarian; anarcho-syndicalism
Chomsky is widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. Chomsky describes himself as a _________ socialist and a sympathizer of _________________ .
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Minimalist program
There are a number of competing versions of generative grammar currently practiced within linguistics. Chomsky's current theory is known as the _________
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1. The relations of words to the objects denoted by them. 2. The relations of words to the interpreters of them. 3. In symbolic logic, the formal relations of signs to one another
The field of semantics has three basic concerns, what are they?
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"leftist" or "left-wing,"
Although Chomsky tries to avoid the ambiguity of labels, his political views are often characterized in news accounts as what?