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People Noam Chomsky references
language
Biolinguistics
What Kind of Creatures are we?
100
"linguistic competence"
What is "Deep Structure"
100
This person takes the position that emerging structures of language necessarily reflected sensorimotor constructions.
Who is Jean Piaget
100
What is "programmed" to allow certain possibilities and not others?
What is "language acuisition device"
100
"system of language is one among various."
What is cognitive systems and cognitive structures
100
"God might have chosen to “superadd to matter a faculty of thinking”,...."
What is “Locke’s suggestion”
200
"productivity in everyday language"
What is "Recursion"
200
Who said only if we can “duplicate [their posits] by means of appropriate artificial devices”
Who is Galileo
200
There is one single grammatical system for all languages.
What is "the minimalist program"
200
"mechanical science and modern terminology
What is "Mechanical Philosophy"
200
"the set of expressions generated, analogous to the set of theorems generated."
What is "weak generation"
300
What has the meaning: "languages vary so much in their surface structure"?
What is "Universal Grammar"
300
"virtually synonymous with symbolic thought"
Who is Ian Tattersall
300
having the ability to know or discover
What is " Cognoscitive Powers"
300
"how much of language can be given a principled explanation"
What is " the biological perspective"
300
the term for "external language"
What is "E-language"
400
Even though there are variations in language, these differences have ____ and _____ (limitations)
What is "specific principle and parameters"
400
"releasing stimulus"
Who is Ian Tattersall
400
what "views the mind as a collection of separate modules or faculties assigned to various mental tasks"
What is "faculty of language"
400
Who "held that the world is a machine"
Who is Galileo
400
term for "internal, individual, and intensional" language
What is "I-language"
500
What gene is "defective"
What is FOX2P
500
Who "concluded that we can "define a house as stone, bricks, and timbers," in terms of material constitution.."
Who is Aristotle
500
"the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses"
What is "Cognition"
500
In the substance philosophy of the day, this was a new substance,_________ , which stood alongside of _______.
What is res cogitans and res extensa
500
"language is a storehouse of words images in the minds of members of a community..."
What is "Ferdinand de Saussure"