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Chomsky vs. Bloomfield
Mentalism
Generative Grammar
Universal Grammer
Principals and Parameters
100
An American linguist who focused his works on the scientific basis of linguistics. He rejects the application of all that is not observable.
Who is Leonard Bloomfield
100
The ability to produce and understand messages that one has never heard before (Rowe & Levine, 2009).
What is productivity
100
A finite set of principles (rules) that yield the possibility of infinite grammatical syntactic structures.
What is generative grammar
100
During the 1930’s linguist Noam Chomsky challenged the popular behaviorist perspective that language was learned through mimicry by reintroducing this concept which states that all humans have a predefined mechanism in their brain that is the basis for the acquisition of all language; and, therefore, any human can learn any human language. Hint: It is the basis for the theory of innateness
What is universal grammar
100
Limitations of language
What are parameters
200
He disagreed with the then popular belief that children were born with empty minds (blank slates) and instead believes that infants are born with innate linguistic abilities.
Who is Noam Chomsky
200
The basic meaning of an utterance; what the speaker subconsciously knows about his native language.
What is deep structure
200
Generative grammar would cease the production of these types of sentences.
What are ungrammatical sentences
200
Bonus Round 5x pts Cited as a support for universal grammar, Chomsky argues that children (from birth) are capable of creating pidgins and these languages; like the ones used by slaves to break the communication barriers between them (as they came from varies homelands with different dialects), if need be. Hint: It has 1st Gen. Native Speakers
What is a creole
200
A finite set of rules that apply to all languages
What are principals
300
An American linguist who believes children have the ability to both produce and interpret utterances which they have never heard before.
Who is Noam Chomsky
300
One of Chomsky’s approaches which deals with how the deep structure becomes the surface structure. This approach emphasizes the subconscious knowledge of the native speaker of a language (Rowe & Levine, 2009).
What is the mentalist approach
300
Noam Chomsky introduced the concept of generative grammar in the 1950’s, adopted the term generative from this subject.
What is mathematics
300
In his universal grammar theory, Chomsky argues that all human languages share these structural properties
What are syntactic rules
300
Parameters are learned by children primarily from their ___________.
What is environment
400
He led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the early 1900’s.
Who is Leonard Bloomfield
400
Linguist Noam Chomsky believes that the innate linguistic acquisition ability of humans is the result of this.
What is evolution
400
A property that allow one syntactic structure to be embedded within another.
What is recursion
400
Postulates that children have an innate capacity to process grammar; their minds are hardwired with the ability to learn language.
What is the innateness hypothesis
400
A linguistic approach to syntax that suggest that there is a set of universal rules and limitations shared by all human languages
What is the principal and parameters theory
500
Bonus Round 2x pts The Bloomfieldian school emphasizes this approach, which states that a ridged set of learned rules is used to form grammatical utterances (Rowe & Levine, 2009). Hint: This approach does not account for productivity.
What is the mechanistic approach
500
Defects in this gene have been proven to cause issues with language acquisition, supporting the proposal that language learning is a biological trait.
What is the FOX2P gene
500
This program, existing since the mid 1990's, is the latest step in the development of transformational generative grammar.
What is the minimalist program
500
Prior to Chomsky’s reintroduction of the concept, the idea of universal grammar had been traced back to this philosopher.
Who is Roger Bacon
500
A proposal made by Eric Lenneberg suggesting that the language acquisition device (LAD) stops working at age(es) 12-15 causing the child’s ability to learn language with native fluency to disappear ( Rowe & Levine, 2009).
What is the critical period hypothesis