The study of the structure of how words and units are classified to create words.
What is morphology?
100
Chomsky refers to this as the pre-wiring in children's brains that allows them to learn language.
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
100
The idea that language syntax is defined by an explicit set of rules which allow people to produce an infinite number of grammatically correct sentences.
What is generative grammar?
100
Bloomfield emphasized what a speaker actually produced; also known as "surface structure."
What is linguistic performance?
100
The ability to produce and understand utterances that one has not heard, seen or produced before.
What is productivity?
200
The study of the sound system of language.
What is phonology?
200
This is what a speaker subconsciously knows about a language; also known as "deep structure."
What is linguistic competence?
200
This position cannot explain how different children with different experiences end up speaking the same natural language.
What is "the baby's mind is a blank tablet"?
200
This approach includes a rigid set of learned rules that is used to form grammatical utterances; it cannot explain productivity.
What is the mechanistic approach?
200
Chomsky's approach highlights the subconscious knowledge a native speaker has about a language; it is the opposite of the mechanistic approach.
What is the mentalist approach?
300
A level of grammar that refers to how words and morphemes are organized or arranged to create sentences.
What is syntax?
300
Chomsky believes language learning is guided by an innate LAD that is a result of this theory.
What is human evolution?
300
This position cannot explain why there are so many different natural languages.
What is innate human knowledge?
300
Bloomfield's approach described and classified sounds and then morphemes based on this.
What is function?
300
It is the process that allows structures to be embedded into others to create an infinite number of utterances.
What is recursion?
400
The study of meaning of linguistic utterances.
What is semantics?
400
In terms of language acquisition, Chomsky used this name to refer to the dilemma of how the human brain can move from a very simplistic state to a complex state.
What is Plato's problem?
400
Chomsky distinguishes two grammatical sentence structures - surface structure and deep structure and calls it this.
What is transformational grammar?
400
Bloomfield studied this area of linguistics, however other linguists believed it was too abstract.
What is semantics?
400
This approach considers there is one grammatical system that is simple and general; it eliminates the concepts of deep structure and surface structure.
What is the minimalist program?
500
The study of meaning in context.
What is pragmatics?
500
This argument refers to the innate linguistic capacity of individuals even if they have limited input from their environment.
What is the poverty-of-the-stimulus theory?
500
The system that involves phonemic differences, word order, and understanding of phrases and is the fundamental idea of how we all have an innate ability to learn language.
What is universal grammar?
500
This is Bloomfield's idea of how language is learned.
What is mimicry?
500
This theory suggests that even though there are variations in languages, these differences have specific rules and limitations.