Chomsky's Universal Grammar Theory

Platonism is the view that abstract objects exist outside of the physical realm. These objects are non-physical and non-mental, and do not exist in space or time.

Katz thinks Chomsky is in camp 2, while Katz himself is in camp 3.

Platonist linguistics is based on linguistic intuitions of speakers, whereas other frameworks prioritize the collection of actual performance data.

<p>The problem of the casual interaction between the physical and non-physical realms, also known as the mind-body problem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mathematics and logic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because Katz is a Platonist and assumes that Chomskyan linguistics is the correct approach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Representations are messages sent from a producer to one or more consumers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The representations must correspond to certain external states in a systematic way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conventions that are not tied to specific groups but are patterns of activities reproduced and proliferated due to tradition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To aid in communication and understanding between speakers and hearers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are arbitrary and conditional, not rules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Replicating language forms, which can occur unconsciously and indirectly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>to support linguistic conventions, and these conventions have an essentially communicative function</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>as a sprawling mass of overlapping and crisscrossing linguistic conventions that are reproduced and proliferated through tradition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>an analogy with how we classify biological species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>that words can be seen as forming lineages or evolving over time, similar to biological species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>to achieve a common goal through the contributions of multiple participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the contribution of each participant depends crucially on the contributions made by the other(s)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All languages hold similar structures and rules, and there are formal universals and principles in common with specific options and limits for variation in grammar and features between languages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language is a state of the language faculty, a learned state of an individual's brain that generates the rules of their language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I-Language refers to the internal cognitive structures and mechanisms that underlie an individual's linguistic competence, while E-Language refers to the observable instances of language use in social interactions and communication.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language competence refers to the internalized knowledge of language, which encompasses the mental representations and rules that govern language use and understanding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory of Universal Grammar proposes that the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into the brain, and that all languages possess the same set of categories and relations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Poverty of Stimulus argument is that the linguistic input received by young children is insufficient to explain their detailed knowledge of their first language, and therefore people must be born with an innate ability to learn a language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acquiring a language refers to the process of innate knowledge of language, while learning a language refers to the process of receiving linguistic input from the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rationalist response is that human children have innate knowledge of language, such as universal grammar, with which they are born.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I-Language is significant because it refers to the internal cognitive structures and mechanisms that underlie an individual's linguistic competence, and is innate and specific to each individual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The goal of linguistics is to study the internal cognitive structures and mechanisms that underlie an individual's linguistic competence, with the hope of mapping this to the brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>tracing their lineages and histories of reproduction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>supporting effective communication between speakers and hearers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>enabling the proliferation of communicative language conventions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>it is what makes a word the same word, regardless of its physical or acoustic form</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>words can change properties over time and still be the same words, like species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>both the settings of an I-language from UG and conventions that have been sustained in the community over generations</p> Signup and view all the answers