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Chomsky Lad Universal GrammarSet 2

1Which of the following best describes the key assumption behind the concept of innateness as it relates to language acquisition?

2A teacher who has established a knowledge-centered environment usually believes:

3The Cognitive Approach aligns most closely with which view of the learner?

4Mentalism suggests that language acquisition is primarily .....

5Who developed the nativist theory of language acquisition?

6Tabula rasa theory suggests that people are born .....

7The acquisition of phonological rules, morphological words, syntactic rules, semantic rules and lexical items.

8In which stage of language development would a child use one word to convey whole sentences?

9What is the central claim of the Innatist Theory in language acquisition?

10Which of the following statements aligns with Noam Chomsky's theory of language development in children?

11The main criticism of behaviorism by Chomsky was that it:

12Children in different cultures learn to speak very different languages, but they all seem to go through the same sequence of stages.

13Chomsky thinks we all have a .....

14Select the term that matches the description: created the theory Language Acquisition Device (LAD) supposes that the ability to learn language is innate, that nature is more important than nurture.

15Chomsky's nativist theory of language development regards the most important contributor to the child's learning of language as

16The theory that we are born with a language acquisition device was formulated by

17The theory of the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) asserts that humans are born with the instinct or "innate ability" for acquiring language.

18The main representative of generative linguistics

19Who wrote Syntactic Structures?

20Chomksy argued for Universal Grammar, because .....

21Who devised the Innatism theory?

22The belief that all children have a capacity for language learning is part of the .....

23Who claimed that "those elements which are similar to native language will be simple for him, and those elements that are different will be difficult" ?

24Teacher Mary learned in her graduate degree class that language learning could also be a result of cognitive processes, or the act of knowing something. Which of the following is a result of this principle?

25It is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s which enables an infant to acquire and produce language.

26Which of the following theories claims that we are born with a built-in device to acquire language?

27Who is the major proponent of the innatist theory?

28What is the difference between competence and performance in linguistics?

29A five-year-old insists "I goed to the park" despite hearing adults say "went." Which theory explains this tendency to create rules?

30Which question reflects one of the fundamental goals of linguistics as proposed by Chomsky?

31Chomsky criticized behaviorism because it:

32According to Chomsky, language acquisition is:

33Developed by Chomsky:A revolutionary idea that language is innate.-Learn through natural ability-Cannot fully utilize language without the presence of other humans.-Does not require formal teaching-The principals of language are possible because they are innate (existing from birth)-Born with a hard-wired Language Acquisition Device (LAD) in our brains.

34The theory of Language learning that emphasizes the child's creativity in constructing his/her knowledge of the language.

35The critical period for language development-

36Hidden knowledge in language which we use as we communicate with others.

37Which does Noam Chomsky assert about language learning for children? I. Children learn grammar and vocabulary through exposure. II. Begin formal grammar teaching as early as possible. III. No need for initial formal language teaching.

38Which language theorist would have been most likely to emphasize that children master the rule for forming the past tense of regular verbs like "push" before they learn common past tense constructions of irregular verbs like "go"?

39Overgeneralization errors such as "goed" and "keeped" are common in children's speech. Such errors suggest that children .....

40Language is "what makes us human" , according to .....

41Which linguist revolutionized modern syntactic theory?

42How does the child acquire the rule of moving the highest auxiliary to the front in English yes-no questions?

43..... innateness or nativist theory proposes that children have an inborn or innate faculty for language acquisition that is biologically determined.

44What does the acronym LAD stand for?

45A French tourist said to you "Il pleut dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville" and you don't understand. It means that you don't have a .....

46Nativism is based on learning from .....

47Who is the linguistic acquisition theory?

48Chomsky's LAD refers to:

49According to N. Chomsky, it is a "metaphorical organ that is responsible for language learning

50..... brain mechanism specialized for detecting and learning rules of language

51Who developed the concept of the innatist/nativist perspective and proposed the Universal Grammar hypothesis?

52Language is a natural object, a component of the human mind, physically represented in the brain and part of the biological endowment of the species

53What are the stages of language development in children?

54Which of the following is not regarded as a theory of language development?

55This person concluded that children's minds are not blank slates to be filled by imitating language they hear in the environment.

56True or False: Generatism is the belief that language is learned using a language acquisition device (a designed language learning mechanism).

57Which of the following is not cited by Chomsky as evidence that language acquisition cannot be explained by learning alone?

58Linguistic competence refers to

59Language ability is not habitat but an innate human capacity.

60Which one is NOT an aspect of language learning of the Innatist?

61Which of the following statements about children are correct? Statements: A Children are passive recipients of knowledge. B Children are problem solvers. C Children are scientific investigators. D Children are active explorers of the environment.