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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 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Ohio State A | 16 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 16 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | William & Mary A | 16 | 10 |
| Brooks Phillips | Auburn A | Auburn B | 16 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharaendra | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech F | 16 | 10 |
| Nina Chen | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 18 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NCSU A | UNC A | 20 | 10 |
| Dan Millington | Birmingham | Southampton | 23 | -5 |
| Taman Truong | USC B | UCLA E | 24 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | St. Thomas | 24 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Oxford | 24 | 10 |
| Rishi Mathur | Claremont B | Claremont A | 24 | -5 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 24 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester | Iowa State | 28 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD A | 28 | 10 |
| James Haddix | Washington State | Arizona State A | 28 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | UNC C | Virginia Tech C | 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 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 32 | -5 |
| Daniel Huang | Georgia Tech D | Montevallo | 32 | 10 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | Maryland A | 35 | 10 |
| James Stadler | Imperial B | Cambridge C | 35 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF A | Florida Tech A | 35 | 10 |
| Jas Wang | UCLA F | UC Irvine | 36 | 10 |
| Tianyi Zheng | UCSD B | UCLA C | 36 | 10 |
| Kyle Hart | MIT B | Brandeis Beethoven | 36 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell 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 |
| 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 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana A | Illinois Canada | 50 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | Louisville A | 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 |
| 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 |
| David Nickel | Purdue A | Purdue C | 69 | 10 |
| Ada Bendel | Bristol | Cambridge D | 69 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Mozart | Williams B | 69 | 10 |
| Wesley Yu | British Columbia A | Texas | 69 | 10 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial A | Warwick | 69 | -5 |
| Andrea Owusu | Duke A | Liberty A | 69 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Camden Walker | WashU Grolars | Purdue D | 74 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham A | Edinburgh A | 74 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 74 | 10 |
| Devin Tharp | Chipola College | Alabama A | 74 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Emory 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 |
| 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 |
| Jennifer Zhu | McGill C | Ottawa B | 81 | 10 |
| Joe Paterson | Michigan State A | Michigan B | 81 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington Pink | Washington Sockeye | 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 |
| Ben Stras | Wisconsin C | Minnesota | 89 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown A | Amherst A | 89 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont A | Claremont B | 89 | 10 |
| Ishan Chahande | Ohio State D | Louisville C | 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 |
| Ben Gardberg | Cornell B | Binghamton C | 93 | 10 |
| Richard D’Angelo | Tennessee B | Sewanne | 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 |
| Noah Lang | Wisconsin B | Michigan Tech | 97 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Birmingham | 97 | 10 |
| Tim Morrice | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 97 | 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 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick | Imperial A | 97 | 10 |
| Eric Cameron | Michigan State C | WVU A | 97 | 0 |
| Gwen Myers | WVU A | Michigan State C | 97 | 0 |
| William Erwin | William & Mary B | William & Mary C | 97 | 10 |
| Veronica Ritter | Kansas State A | Central Oklahoma B | 97 | 10 |
| Sam Beshear | Murray State College B | Nebraska C | 97 | 10 |
| Edward Zhang | Vanderbilt C | Vanderbilt B | 97 | 10 |