Show:
Chomskian Linguistics
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
100
Chomsky's linguistic theory defines language as a ______ computational function.
What is cognitive
100
The study of the production of speech sounds.
What is articulatory phonetics.
100
A mental construct
What is a phoneme
100
The smallest units of meaning.
What are morphemes.
100
A level of grammar that specifically refers to the arrangement of words and morphemes in the construction of sentences.
What is syntax
200
In Chomsky's view, language learning is motivated by an ____ capacity to acquire language.
What is internal.
200
A single vowel sound.
What is a monophthong.
200
A classification system in which a feature is either present or absent.
What is a binary system.
200
A variation of a morpheme.
What is an allomorph.
200
The specific sequence that different types of words follow.
What is linear word order.
300
Chomsky introduced the Principles and _____ theory.
What is Parameters.
300
A speech sound that is perceived as an individual and unique sound.
What is a phonetic segment, or phone.
300
A pattern applied by individuals or groups but is not usually a characteristic of most native speakers.
What is optional phonological process.
300
Newly formed words
What is a neologism.
300
What a speaker subconsciously knows about their language.
What is deep structure.
400
Chomsky maintains the view that there is ___ grammatical systems for all languages.
What is one.
400
Characteristics of speech that can distinguish words, phrases or sentences that are otherwise identical in their phonetic segments.
What are suprasegmentals.
400
_____ is rule-governed.
What is language.
400
In analytic languages, words are ___ morphemes.
What is single.
400
A process that generates productivity.
What is recursion.
500
Who believes "there is fundamentally one language with minor deviations"?
Who is Noam Chomsky.
500
Phonetics can be divided into three interdependent areas. These are:
What is acoustic phonetics, auditory phonetics and articulatory phonetics.
500
Predictable features of a language.
What are redundant features.
500
Three types of synthetic language are agglutinating, _____ and _____.
What is inflectional and polysynthetic.
500
A branch of theoretical linguistics that describes a language as a set of rules that allows for infinite possibilities to be created.
What is generative grammar.