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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 (20[1])Pirahã (0[1])for his PhD thesis. (20[1])To disagree with B.F. Skinner, (20[1]0[1])this thinker (20[1])addressed (0[1])what they called “Plato’s problem” to argue children are subject to (20[1])a (20[1]0[1])(*) “poverty of the stimulus” (10[1])and (10[1])can’t (0[1])learn (10[1])every aspect of language from experience. (10[4])This thinker modeled category formation (0[1])with X-bar theory. In the book (10[1])Syntactic Structures, (10[2]0[1])this thinker (10[1])posed (10[2])the well-formed (10[1])but nonsensical (0[1])sentence (10[1])“Colorless green (10[2])ideas (10[1])sleep furiously.” (10[2])For 10 points, the “universal grammar” (10[1])theory was developed by what former MIT (10[1])linguist? (0[1])■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: Noam Chomsky [or Avram Noam Chomsky]
<Benjamin Chapman, Social Science - Linguistics&gt; ~26027~ &lt;Editor: Athena Kern>
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