This is the "study of the sound system of a language" or "the study of the sound systems of all languages, including universal rules of sound".
What is phonology?
(Rowe 62)
100
What is the name of the theory that Noam Chomsky is most famous for proposing?
What is the Theory of Universal Grammar?
(Rowe 138)
100
This rhymes with "journal" and describes the kind of innate grammar Chomsky describes in his Universal Language theory.
What is "internal" grammar?
(Calinescu 93)
100
Universal Language Theory
What theory states that we are genetically pre-wired to learn language?
(Rowe 138)
200
Noam Chomsky introduced this term in 1995, which "maintains his concept that there is one single grammatical system for all languages."
What is minimalism?
(Rowe 138)
200
This is an "abstract" unit of sound that changes the formation and meaning of a word.
What is a phoneme?
(Rowe 63)
200
This man was "the best known linguist of the first half of the 20th century" and took a structural approach to linguistics.
Who is Leonard Bloomfield?
(Rowe 137)
200
This term rhymes with "excursion" and makes language much more flexible and complex.
What is recursion?
(Rowe 17)
200
Many language functions, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area of the brain, are located on the what side of the brain?
What is the left side?
(Rowe 19)
300
According to Bloomfield, children learn language through this process.
What is mimicry?
(Rowe 138)
300
This man co-wrote "The Biolinguistic Program: The Current State of its Development," with Noam Chomsky in 2011.
Who is Robert C. Berwick?
(Calinescu 96)
300
This word end rhymes with "electrical" and describes the categories we place words into.
What are "lexical" categories?
(Rowe 405)
400
These sounds are less natural to children, take longer to learn, and are complex.
What are marked sounds?
(Rowe 82)
400
Noam Chomsky "defines language" as this kind of function.
What is a cognitive computational function?
(Rowe 17)
400
This man wrote "Biological Foundations of Language" in 1974.
Who is Eric Lenneburg?
(Chomsky 1)
400
This word rhymes with "romantic" and describes the internal meaning a person associates with a specific word.
What are "semantic" properties?
(Chomsky 7)
(Rowe 408)
400
Genetic Endowment
What is the topic of Universal Language Theory?
(Chomsky 1)
500
The Merge.
What is term Noam Chomsky uses to identify the moment in human evolution where the brain was "switched on" and language was developed?
(Chomsky 11)
500
Linguist Dan Everett says that this tribe does not display recursion in their language, which casts doubts on Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar.
What is the Piraha tribe?
(Rowe 17)
500
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Which man coined the term "biolinguistics" and organized the international meeting held at MIT in 1974?
(Chomsky 1)
500
This term rhymes with "plunking" and is a process which linguist George Miller describes as "the identification of phonological words in the string of phonetic units".
What is "chunking"?
(Chomsky 7)
500
The FOX2P gene
What is the name of the gene that disrupts human speech development?
(Rowe 138)