Born in 1928, Chomsky grew up in this major U.S. city.
What is Philadelphia?
100
Born in 1887, this man developed his own eponymous theory on structural linguistics.
Who is Leonard Bloomfield?
100
This never-ending trait of language is a major part of what separates human languages from other animal communication forms.
What is recursion?
100
The LAD is an important part of this indigenous theory of language.
What is the nativist theory?
100
Universal grammar is the system of grammar hardwired in humans that allows them to understand the grammar of these languages.
What are all human languages?
200
Chomsky received his PhD in linguistics from this University in 1955.
What is the University of Pennsylvania?
200
While Chomsky was a student the belief was that children were taught language by these people.
Who are the parents or guardians?
200
This part of the mind is what Chomsky theorizes as the part that we use to learn language.
What is the faculty of language?
200
Theorized to be found in the brain, this area helps children learn language more easily.
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
200
According to Chomsky human language is _____, meaning it comes to us naturally.
What is innate?
300
In 1955 he joined the staff and was later made a full professor at this University.
What is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
300
Although his followers found this subject matter to be too abstract to study, Bloomfield spent time to better understand this field of meaning.
What is semantics?
300
Chomsky compares the gradual learning of language to the growth of these anatomic structural units of life.
What are organs?
300
Chomsky believed that language learning was motivated by a _____ capacity to acquire language.
What is internal?
300
These are the rules and traits common in all languages.
What are principles?
400
Chomsky’s interest in these two fields of study contributed greatly to his ideas about languages.
What are logic and mathematics?
400
Chomsky’s theories started out as disputes with the theories of these types of psychologists.
Who are behavioral psychologists?
400
This is what Chomsky’s earlier versions of generative grammar were called.
What is transformational grammar?
400
This theory covers the ability of children to learn a language fully despite a lack of sufficient examples to explain such mastery.
What is the poverty of the stimulus theory?
400
Chomsky’s theories on linguistics seemed to combine traditional linguistics with philosophy and this other seemingly distinct scientific field.
What is Biology?
500
His first theory of generative grammar came from this doctoral dissertation.
What is Transformational Analysis?
500
Previous thoughts about the acquirement of language stated that people learned language this way.
What is through extensive repetition or training?
500
The Chomskyan theory of _____ _____ ______ provides the framework for all languages.
What are Principles and Parameters?
500
This gene, which if defective hinders one’s ability to learn a language, supports the claim of the human genetic potential for acquiring language.
What is the FoxP2 gene?
500
According to Chomsky the way we learn language is very much like this development phase in that both are biological developments that happen autonomously after birth.