bootstrapping - 2024 Penn Bowl

Question

Lila Gleitman argued that the “syntactic” form of this process allowed a blind child named Kelli to understand the difference between “look” and “see.” For 10 points each,

[10h] Name this process in child language acquisition, which also comes in “semantic” and “prosodic” forms.

ANSWER: bootstrapping [or syntactic bootstrapping; or semantic bootstrapping]

[10m] Semantic bootstrapping, where children acquire syntax by recognizing meanings, was first proposed by this psychologist, who argued against theories of tabula rasa in The Blank Slate.

ANSWER: Steven Pinker [or Steven Arthur Pinker]

[10e] A paper by Gleitman on syntactic bootstrapping proposed that words with this part of speech were “Hard Words” for children to learn. Pinker’s Words and Rules is about irregular examples of these words, such as “to be.”

ANSWER: verbs

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Carnegie Mellon	Michigan State	0	10	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	0	10	10
Stanford	Berkeley A	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	0	10	10
Michigan A	Ohio State A	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago A	0	10	10
Illinois A	Northwestern A	10	10	20
Illinois B	Indiana A	0	10	10
Indiana B	Chicago B	0	10	10
Minnesota	SIUE	10	10	20
Notre Dame C	Northwestern B	0	10	10
Notre Dame B	Illinois C	0	10	10
WUSTL	Purdue	0	10	10
Maryland	JHU B	0	10	10
Columbia	NYU A	0	10	10
Princeton	NYU B	10	10	20
Texas B	TAMU	0	10	10
Houston	Texas A	10	10	20