Question
Geoffrey K. Pullum criticized this writer’s use of concepts created by Emil Post without sufficiently citing them. Daniel Everett challenged the theories of this thinker after researching the Pirahã for his PhD thesis. To disagree with B.F. Skinner, this thinker addressed what they called “Plato’s problem” to argue children are subject to a (*) “poverty of the stimulus” and can’t learn every aspect of language from experience. This thinker modeled category formation with X-bar theory. In the book Syntactic Structures, this thinker posed the well-formed but nonsensical sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” For 10 points, the “universal grammar” theory was developed by what former MIT linguist? ■END■
ANSWER: Noam Chomsky [or Avram Noam Chomsky]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 34 | 97% | 18% | 0% | 75.48 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Hunter A | 27 | 20 |
MarK Lee | Troy | Solon | 28 | 0 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Parkway West | 32 | 20 |
Samarth Ram | Plymouth | Dallas County | 37 | 20 |
Alan Fan | Thomas Jefferson D | Walter Payton | 37 | 0 |
Rohan Kher | Barrington A | Rockford Auburn A | 39 | 20 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Detroit Country Day | 40 | 0 |
Ben Yancey | Detroit Catholic Central A | Richard Montgomery | 51 | 20 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Chattahoochee A | 52 | 0 |
Isaac McCollum | Hoover B | Mercer County | 52 | 20 |
Vincent Wang | Irvington A | Heights | 56 | 10 |
Eleanor Heydt | Midtown | Lincoln-Way East | 57 | 10 |
Johnathon Franke Gordon | Stevenson B | Saint Joseph | 58 | 0 |
Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | University Lab | 59 | 10 |
Hayden Ley | Washington | Belvidere | 65 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Rockford Auburn B | Maggie Walker B | 65 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Lake Highland | 65 | 10 |
Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Maggie Walker A | 65 | 10 |
Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | St. Mark's | 70 | 0 |
Aarushi Kanigicherla | Thomas Jefferson C | Northmont A | 76 | 10 |
Ben Horning | Waukee | Moberly | 78 | 10 |
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Mira Loma | Thomas Jefferson B | 78 | 10 |
Sam Konkel | Johns Creek A | Dunbar | 78 | 0 |
Colette Kendrick | Winston Churchill B | Stevenson A | 80 | 10 |
Sean Lee | Chattahoochee B | Carbondale | 81 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Carl Sandburg | 81 | 10 |
Kaushik Gollamudi | Barrington B | Maggie Walker C | 83 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Winnebago | 85 | 0 |
Joseph Harrison | Detroit Catholic Central C | Detroit Catholic Central B | 86 | 10 |
Brian O'Connell | Woodland | Canyon Crest | 88 | 10 |
Bridget Scranton | Northmont B | West Point | 88 | 10 |
Jiming Chen | Hinsdale Central | New Brighton | 89 | 10 |
Aeres Zhou | Detroit Country Day | Thomas Jefferson A | 91 | 10 |
Rohan Navaneetha | Solon | Troy | 91 | 10 |
Michael Camilleri | John Adams A | Innovation Academy B | 97 | 10 |
Fahian Joy | Hunter B | Elkhorn North | 104 | 10 |
Hetvi Patel | Saint Joseph | Stevenson B | 105 | 0 |
Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | Choate Rosemary Hall | 106 | 10 |
Chakri Gudlavalleti | Dunbar | Johns Creek A | 106 | 10 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Johns Creek B | 106 | 10 |
Addison Baker | Walter Payton | Thomas Jefferson D | 106 | 10 |
Sohum Sukhatankar | St. Mark's | Winston Churchill A | 106 | 10 |