Question
Robyn Orfitelli and Nina Hyams used comprehension data regarding these words to show that children and adults have different grammars. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these grammatical features that are often “null” in sentences from Arabic, Spanish, and English-speaking children. In English, nouns acting as these features are put in the nominative case.
ANSWER: subjects [or null subjects]
[10e] This linguist examined subjects and other grammatical features in his book Syntactic Structures, which includes the well-formed but nonsense sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
ANSWER: Noam Chomsky [or Avram Noam Chomsky]
[10h] Chomsky’s minimalist program is an example of a grammar described by this adjective. The branch of linguistics denoted by this adjective posits that rules like the pro-drop parameter arise from an innate language faculty.
ANSWER: generative [accept generative linguistics; accept generative grammar]
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Summary
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 0% | 29% |
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
Alabama A | Auburn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
South Carolina A | Clemson A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Auburn C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Georgia Tech E | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Georgia Tech E | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Auburn C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech D | Tusculum A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech D | Tusculum A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech F | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Georgia Tech B | Emory A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech B | Emory A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech F | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Georgia Tech C | Tennesse B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Auburn C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Georgia Tech E | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Georgia Tech E | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Auburn C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tennesse A | Auburn C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Tennesse A | Auburn C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Tennesse A | Auburn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tennesse A | Auburn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tusculum A | Emory B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Auburn A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech F | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Georgia Tech B | Emory A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech B | Emory A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech F | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Emory B | Clemson A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tennesse B | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech F | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tennesse A | Auburn C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Tennesse A | Auburn C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Tennesse A | Auburn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tennesse A | Auburn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech D | Tusculum A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech D | Tusculum A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |