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This thinker developed phase theory as part of a paradigm whose basic operations are Move and Merge. This thinker’s “normal form” can express context-free grammars, which are nested between context-sensitive and regular grammars in his namesake hierarchy. This thinker developed the minimalist program to replace his earlier X-bar theory. Because children have a “poverty of the stimulus,” this thinker argued that people have an innate capacity to understand recursive language. This thinker’s book Syntactic Structures discusses the sentence “colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” For 10 points, name this MIT linguist who developed the theory of universal grammar. ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.40 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 42.71 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 54.60 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.67 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 63.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 54.45 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 52.33 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 45.50 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.50 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 57.80 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 52.88 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 86.33 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 13 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 57.42 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 69.63 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 78.00 |
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| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Ohio State A | 16 | 10 |
| Brooks Phillips | Auburn A | Auburn B | 16 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McGill A | 16 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | William & Mary A | 16 | 10 |
| William Henley | Illinois Champaign | Illinois Blue | 16 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharaendra | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech F | 16 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 16 | 10 |
| Nina Chen | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 18 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NCSU A | UNC A | 20 | 10 |
| Dan Millington | Birmingham | Southampton | 23 | -5 |
| Rishi Mathur | Claremont B | Claremont A | 24 | -5 |
| Judah Friedman | UConn A | Tufts B | 24 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington Coho | 24 | 10 |
| Taman Truong | USC B | UCLA E | 24 | 10 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 24 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | St. Thomas | 24 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Boston College A | 24 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Oxford | 24 | 10 |
| James Haddix | Washington State | Arizona State A | 28 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | UNC C | Virginia Tech C | 28 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD A | 28 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester | Iowa State | 28 | 10 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton A | Carleton B | 29 | 10 |
| Abhay Ariyapappillil | Ottawa B | McGill C | 29 | -5 |
| Jacob Cohen | UCLA A | USC A | 29 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis Bach | Boston University A | 29 | 10 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan B | Michigan State A | 32 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Steelhead | 32 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Georgia Tech D | Montevallo | 32 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 32 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF A | Florida Tech A | 35 | 10 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | Maryland A | 35 | 10 |
| James Stadler | Imperial B | Cambridge C | 35 | -5 |
| Nate Brown | CWRU C | Ohio State C | 36 | 10 |
| Gary Wang | Michigan D | Pittsburgh | 36 | 10 |
| Venkat Das | WVU B | Michigan State D | 36 | 10 |
| Kyle Hart | MIT B | Brandeis Beethoven | 36 | -5 |
| Jas Wang | UCLA F | UC Irvine | 36 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NCSU B | Liberty C | 36 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell C | 36 | 10 |
| Tianyi Zheng | UCSD B | UCLA C | 36 | 10 |
| James Fan | Toronto E | McMaster B | 38 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago B | Illinois Urbana | 38 | 10 |
| Tom Blythe | Cambridge D | Bristol | 38 | -5 |
| Will Massey | Florida Tech B | ERAU Daytona A | 39 | -5 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Cambridge E | 39 | 10 |
| Joel Kim | Clemson B | Clemson C | 40 | -5 |
| CJ Sershon | Central Oklahoma B | Kansas State A | 41 | -5 |
| Charlotte Nicholas | Durham B | Sheffield A | 42 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | British Columbia C | 42 | 10 |
| Charles Miller | William & Mary C | William & Mary B | 46 | -5 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Brown B | 48 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU A | 49 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Auburn C | 49 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | Louisville A | 50 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana A | Illinois Canada | 50 | 10 |
| Sonya Bates | Washington Atlantic | British Columbia B | 50 | 10 |
| Ezra Zareba | UNC B | VCU A | 52 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Berkeley Archer Queen | 53 | 10 |
| Jamie Pach | Ottawa D | Ottawa A | 56 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | Maryland C | 56 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA D | UCLA B | 57 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida A | 58 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge B | Cardiff | 58 | 10 |
| David Ciardella | Vermont B | Dartmouth A | 58 | 10 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Indiana B | 59 | 10 |
| Kathryn Knispel | Edinburgh D | York | 60 | 10 |
| Matthew Stall | CWRU D | Ohio State B | 62 | 10 |
| Eli Zimmerman | Tufts C | Amherst B | 64 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | South Carolina A | 66 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto G | Guelph A | 67 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods University A | Rose-Hulman A | 67 | 10 |
| Dawson Teu | Waterloo A | Toronto D | 68 | 10 |
| Andrea Owusu | Duke A | Liberty A | 69 | 10 |
| David Nickel | Purdue A | Purdue C | 69 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Mozart | Williams B | 69 | 10 |
| Wesley Yu | British Columbia A | Texas | 69 | 10 |
| Ada Bendel | Bristol | Cambridge D | 69 | 10 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial A | Warwick | 69 | -5 |
| Alan Cai | Amherst A | Brown A | 70 | -5 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Michigan C | 71 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Georgia Tech C | 71 | 10 |
| Alex Forman | Cornell D | RIT B | 72 | 10 |
| Nishad Joshi | Kentucky | Louisville D | 73 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Emory A | 74 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham A | Edinburgh A | 74 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 74 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU Grolars | Purdue D | 74 | 10 |
| Devin Tharp | Chipola College | Alabama A | 74 | 10 |
| Robert Szot | Nebraska B | Central Oklahoma A | 75 | 10 |
| Will Barton | Imperial C | LSE | 76 | 10 |
| Andrew Park | Harvard | Williams C | 76 | 10 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Georgia A | 77 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 78 | 10 |
| Eric Parrilla | Chicago A | Iowa A | 78 | 10 |
| Summer Solis | JMU B | Liberty B | 79 | 10 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State College A | Oklahoma | 79 | 10 |
| Surya Donath | Stanford A | Berkeley Little Prince | 80 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | Iowa B | 80 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa A | Nebraska A | 80 | 10 |
| Joe Paterson | Michigan State A | Michigan B | 81 | 10 |
| Jennifer Zhu | McGill C | Ottawa B | 81 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington Pink | Washington Sockeye | 81 | 10 |
| Pen Hughes | Edinburgh C | Durham C | 82 | 10 |
| Christina Popov | Queen's A | Toronto F | 82 | 10 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto A | Toronto C | 87 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont A | Claremont B | 89 | 10 |
| Ishan Chahande | Ohio State D | Louisville C | 89 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley Mighty Miner | Berkeley Boss Bandit | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Stras | Wisconsin C | Minnesota | 89 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown A | Amherst A | 89 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Kansas State B | 90 | 10 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Ottawa C | 91 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto H | Brock A | 93 | 10 |
| Richard D’Angelo | Tennessee B | Sewanne | 93 | 10 |
| Ben Gardberg | Cornell B | Binghamton C | 93 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Cornell A | 95 | 10 |
| Jack Disbury | Durham D | Edinburgh B | 96 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto I | McMaster C | 96 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | South Florida A | 97 | 10 |
| Eric Cameron | Michigan State C | WVU A | 97 | 0 |
| Gwen Myers | WVU A | Michigan State C | 97 | 0 |
| Jack Yesner | Brandeis Beethoven | MIT B | 97 | 10 |
| Veronica Ritter | Kansas State A | Central Oklahoma B | 97 | 10 |
| Sam Beshear | Murray State College B | Nebraska C | 97 | 10 |
| William Erwin | William & Mary B | William & Mary C | 97 | 10 |
| Grace Lovitt | Washington Masu | Boise State | 97 | 10 |
| Edward Zhang | Vanderbilt C | Vanderbilt B | 97 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Birmingham | 97 | 10 |
| Tim Morrice | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 97 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick | Imperial A | 97 | 10 |
| Noah Lang | Wisconsin B | Michigan Tech | 97 | 10 |