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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Alabama AAuburn B1010020
South Carolina AClemson A010010
Georgia AAuburn C010010
Georgia AGeorgia Tech E010010
Georgia AGeorgia Tech E010010
Georgia AAuburn C010010
Georgia Tech DTusculum A010010
Georgia Tech DGeorgia Tech A010010
Georgia Tech DGeorgia Tech A010010
Georgia Tech DTusculum A010010
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech F1010020
Georgia Tech BEmory A010010
Georgia Tech BEmory A0101020
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech F10101030
Georgia Tech CTennesse B010010
Georgia AAuburn C010010
Georgia AGeorgia Tech E010010
Georgia AGeorgia Tech E010010
Georgia AAuburn C010010
Tennesse AAuburn C1010020
Tennesse AAuburn C1010020
Tennesse AAuburn B010010
Tennesse AAuburn B010010
Tusculum AEmory B010010
Auburn ASouth Carolina A0101020
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech F1010020
Georgia Tech BEmory A010010
Georgia Tech BEmory A0101020
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech F10101030
Emory BClemson A010010
Tennesse BGeorgia Tech A010010
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Tennesse AAuburn C1010020
Tennesse AAuburn C1010020
Tennesse AAuburn B010010
Tennesse AAuburn B010010
Georgia Tech DTusculum A010010
Georgia Tech DGeorgia Tech A010010
Georgia Tech DGeorgia Tech A010010
Georgia Tech DTusculum A010010