Chomsky & GG

Who was concerned with the phonological universals?

• Roman Jakobson

• Noam Chomsky

The essence of Chomsky's approach to language is the claim that there are linguistic universals in the domain of

• Phonology

• Semantic

• Pragmatic

• Syntax

Chomsky followed the categories of Form-Class of his teacher

• Roman Jakobson

• Zellig Harris

Refers to the set of formal rules used to generate all those sentences that are grammatical in a given language

• Descriptive Grammar

• Generative Grammar

The ideal language system that enables speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences in their language, and to distinguish grammatical sentences from ungrammatical sentences

• Performance

• Universal Grammar

• Competence

• Surface structure

The final stage in the syntactic derivation of a construction is known as the Deep structure

• True

• False

The distinction between competence and performance is similar to Saussure's distinction between langue and parole

• True

• False

Chomsky’s view of children language acquisition:

• Develops according to what they listen

• innate ability of children

• Depends on the educational context

• From the social environment

The way a language system is used in communication refers to

• Competence

• Performance

The underlying structure that represents the semantic foundations of a sentence

• Deep structure

• Surface structure