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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 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Ohio State A | 16 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | William & Mary A | 16 | 10 |
| William Henley | Illinois Champaign | Illinois Blue | 16 | 10 |
| Brooks Phillips | Auburn A | Auburn B | 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 |
| Taman Truong | USC B | UCLA E | 24 | 10 |
| Rishi Mathur | Claremont B | Claremont A | 24 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 24 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Oxford | 24 | 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 |
| James Haddix | Washington State | Arizona State A | 28 | 10 |
| Jacob Cohen | UCLA A | USC A | 29 | 10 |
| Abhay Ariyapappillil | Ottawa B | McGill C | 29 | -5 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton A | Carleton B | 29 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis Bach | Boston University A | 29 | 10 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan B | Michigan State A | 32 | -5 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 32 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Steelhead | 32 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jas Wang | UCLA F | UC Irvine | 36 | 10 |
| Tianyi Zheng | UCSD B | UCLA C | 36 | 10 |
| Gary Wang | Michigan D | Pittsburgh | 36 | 10 |
| Venkat Das | WVU B | Michigan State D | 36 | 10 |
| Nate Brown | CWRU C | Ohio State C | 36 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NCSU B | Liberty C | 36 | 10 |
| Kyle Hart | MIT B | Brandeis Beethoven | 36 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont A | Claremont B | 89 | 10 |
| Ishan Chahande | Ohio State D | Louisville C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Gwen Myers | WVU A | Michigan State C | 97 | 0 |
| Eric Cameron | Michigan State C | WVU A | 97 | 0 |
| William Erwin | William & Mary B | William & Mary C | 97 | 10 |
| Noah Lang | Wisconsin B | Michigan Tech | 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 |
| Edward Zhang | Vanderbilt C | Vanderbilt B | 97 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Birmingham | 97 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick | Imperial A | 97 | 10 |
| Tim Morrice | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 97 | 10 |