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
| Ohio State A (UG) | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |