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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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| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McGill 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 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Ohio State A | 16 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | William & Mary A | 16 | 10 |
| Brooks Phillips | Auburn A | Auburn 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 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Boston College A | 24 | 10 |
| Judah Friedman | UConn A | Tufts B | 24 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington Coho | 24 | 10 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 24 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Oxford | 24 | 10 |
| Rishi Mathur | Claremont B | Claremont A | 24 | -5 |
| Taman Truong | USC B | UCLA E | 24 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | St. Thomas | 24 | 10 |
| James Haddix | Washington State | Arizona State A | 28 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD A | 28 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | UNC C | Virginia Tech C | 28 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester | Iowa State | 28 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis Bach | Boston University A | 29 | 10 |
| Jacob Cohen | UCLA A | USC A | 29 | 10 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton A | Carleton B | 29 | 10 |
| Abhay Ariyapappillil | Ottawa B | McGill C | 29 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Steelhead | 32 | 10 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan B | Michigan State A | 32 | -5 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 32 | -5 |
| Daniel Huang | Georgia Tech D | Montevallo | 32 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Kyle Hart | MIT B | Brandeis Beethoven | 36 | -5 |
| Tianyi Zheng | UCSD B | UCLA C | 36 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Walter Carson | NCSU B | Liberty C | 36 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell C | 36 | 10 |
| Jas Wang | UCLA F | UC Irvine | 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 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | British Columbia C | 42 | 10 |
| Charlotte Nicholas | Durham B | Sheffield A | 42 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Sonya Bates | Washington Atlantic | British Columbia B | 50 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | Louisville A | 50 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana A | Illinois Canada | 50 | 10 |
| Ezra Zareba | UNC B | VCU A | 52 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Berkeley Archer Queen | 53 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | Maryland C | 56 | 10 |
| Jamie Pach | Ottawa D | Ottawa A | 56 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA D | UCLA B | 57 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida A | 58 | 10 |
| David Ciardella | Vermont B | Dartmouth A | 58 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge B | Cardiff | 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 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Mozart | Williams B | 69 | 10 |
| Wesley Yu | British Columbia A | Texas | 69 | 10 |
| David Nickel | Purdue A | Purdue C | 69 | 10 |
| Ada Bendel | Bristol | Cambridge D | 69 | 10 |
| Andrea Owusu | Duke A | Liberty A | 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 |
| Devin Tharp | Chipola College | Alabama A | 74 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 74 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU Grolars | Purdue D | 74 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Emory A | 74 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham A | Edinburgh A | 74 | 10 |
| Robert Szot | Nebraska B | Central Oklahoma A | 75 | 10 |
| Andrew Park | Harvard | Williams C | 76 | 10 |
| Will Barton | Imperial C | LSE | 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 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State College A | Oklahoma | 79 | 10 |
| Summer Solis | JMU B | Liberty B | 79 | 10 |
| Surya Donath | Stanford A | Berkeley Little Prince | 80 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa A | Nebraska A | 80 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | Iowa B | 80 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington Pink | Washington Sockeye | 81 | 10 |
| Jennifer Zhu | McGill C | Ottawa B | 81 | 10 |
| Joe Paterson | Michigan State A | Michigan B | 81 | 10 |
| Christina Popov | Queen's A | Toronto F | 82 | 10 |
| Pen Hughes | Edinburgh C | Durham C | 82 | 10 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto A | Toronto C | 87 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley Mighty Miner | Berkeley Boss Bandit | 89 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown A | Amherst A | 89 | 10 |
| Ishan Chahande | Ohio State D | Louisville C | 89 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont A | Claremont B | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Stras | Wisconsin C | Minnesota | 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 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto I | McMaster C | 96 | 10 |
| Jack Disbury | Durham D | Edinburgh B | 96 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | South Florida A | 97 | 10 |
| Jack Yesner | Brandeis Beethoven | MIT B | 97 | 10 |
| Grace Lovitt | Washington Masu | Boise State | 97 | 10 |
| Veronica Ritter | Kansas State A | Central Oklahoma B | 97 | 10 |
| Sam Beshear | Murray State College B | Nebraska C | 97 | 10 |
| Eric Cameron | Michigan State C | WVU A | 97 | 0 |
| Gwen Myers | WVU A | Michigan State C | 97 | 0 |
| Noah Lang | Wisconsin B | Michigan Tech | 97 | 10 |
| Edward Zhang | Vanderbilt C | Vanderbilt B | 97 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Birmingham | 97 | 10 |
| Tim Morrice | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 97 | 10 |
| William Erwin | William & Mary B | William & Mary C | 97 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick | Imperial A | 97 | 10 |