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  2. Theories of second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    [2] The 1990s were characterized by two major areas of research focus: linguistic theories of SLA based on Noam Chomsky’s Universal Grammar and psychological approaches such as skill acquisition theory and connectionism. This era also saw the development of new frameworks, including Processability Theory and Input Processing Theory ...

  3. Minimalist program - Wikipedia

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    Chomsky's earlier work defines each lexical item as a syntactic object that is associated with both categorical features and selectional features. [10] Features—more precisely formal features—participate in feature-checking, which takes as input two expressions that share the same feature, and checks them off against each other in a certain ...

  4. Chomsky hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    The Chomsky hierarchy in the fields of formal language theory, computer science, and linguistics, is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. A formal grammar describes how to form strings from a language's vocabulary (or alphabet) that are valid according to the language's syntax.

  5. Deep structure and surface structure - Wikipedia

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    Chomsky, Noam (1986), Barriers, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press Kordić, Snježana (1991). "Transformacijsko-generativni pristup jeziku u Sintaktičkim strukturama i Aspektima teorije sintakse Noama Chomskog" [Transformational-generative approach to language in Syntactic structures and Aspects of the theory of syntax of Noam Chomsky] (PDF) .

  6. Language module - Wikipedia

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    The language module or language faculty is a hypothetical structure in the human brain which is thought to contain innate capacities for language, originally posited by Noam Chomsky. There is ongoing research into brain modularity in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience , although the current idea is much weaker than what was ...

  7. Cognitive linguistics - Wikipedia

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    The roots of cognitive linguistics are in Noam Chomsky's 1959 critical review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior.Chomsky's rejection of behavioural psychology and his subsequent anti-behaviourist activity helped bring about a shift of focus from empiricism to mentalism in psychology under the new concepts of cognitive psychology and cognitive science.

  8. Noam Chomsky, 95, recovering in hospital in his wife’s native ...

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    Noam Chomsky has suffered a stroke and is recovering in hospital, his wife has confirmed.. The 95-year-old famed linguist has not been seen in public since June last year, with many commenting on ...

  9. Universal grammar - Wikipedia

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    Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be.