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Nature-Nurture Debate - ANSWER The argument concerning whether human behavior is determined by the environment (prenatal or during a person's life), or by a person's genes Nature vs. Nurture - ANSWER Heredity vs. Environment Plato's Problem - ANSWER How can children with different linguistic environments arrive at an accurate grammar relatively rapidly, and with finite input?

The Language Faculty - ANSWER A way of referring to all of the cognitive abilities that give rise to language in humans. But more specifically, it is a set of abilities that allows us to convert from physical signals like sound (or visual signs) to thought. What is the structure of the language faculty? In other words, how does each stage of converting from sound to meaning work? - ANSWER Goal #1 of class

As per structural analogy we expect that all submodules of the grammar contain the following parts: a. Basic units, structure building rules, structure changing rules, realization rules b. Lexicon, phonology, semantics, syntax c.Phonemes, syllable structure rules, allomorphy rules, allophony rules - ANSWER A Which of the following is NOT the goal of modern linguistics? a. To observe and record actual speech b. To prescribe the rules of language c. To describe the rules of language - ANS...

nature-nurture debate - ANSWER the arguments concerning whether psychological characteristics are biologically innate or acquired through education, experience, and culture Plato's Problem - ANSWER "How do people come to know so much on the basis of so little experience?" Why is language a good case study for the N/N debate? - ANSWER Has been studied extensively for millennia, it is a central part of the human mind Who proposes the 'innateness hypothesis for language' (IH...

What is the relation between phoneomes and allophones? - ANSWER Allophomes are made of phonemes. What is a minimal pair? - ANSWER Words that differ percisely due to [t] and [th] sounds. Shows that a letter sound can change the meaning of a word, not in english but other languages.

Innateness Hypothesis for language - ANSWER follows with Plato's belief that humans have innate knowledge at birth and gain further knowledge not from environment, but from awakened intuition Plato's Problem - ANSWER "How do people come to know so much on the basis of so little experience" • All ideas are 'innate' (they come from our nature) Chomsky's idea about how children acquire language - ANSWER • Claimed that there is a considerable innate aspect to our lin...

Allophones are: a. different realizations of a morpheme b. speech sounds that are contrastive because they can be used to form minimal pairs c. Different realizations of a phoneme - ANSWER C Morphemes are stored in: a. the phonological component b. the mental lexicon c. the syntactic component - ANSWER B Which correlation makes no sense?

Allophones are: - a. different realizations of a morpheme b. speech sounds that are contrastive because they can be used to form minimal pairs c. Different realizations of a phoneme C Morphemes are stored in: - a. the phonological component b. the mental lexicon c. the syntactic component B Which correlation makes no sense? - a. Affixes are category-makers projection requirement b. Affixes are category-makers insertion (or subcategorization) requirement c. Affixes are category-takers i...