This thinker illustrated one of his major theories with a "phase structure tree" relating words and phrases in a sentence, and he proposed that the abstract "deep structure" of sentences could be related to the "surface structure.
This thinker illustrated one of his major theories with a "phase structure tree" relating words and phrases in a sentence, and he proposed that the abstract "deep structure" of sentences could be related to the "surface structure." This thinker also attacked behaviorist theories of language as a learned habit in his review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior. Languages with phrase structure which can be computed by Turing machines form the Type-0 tier of his grammar hierarchy, and he theorized that a precise set of rules could predict all of the grammatically possible sentences in a language. For 10 points, name this author of Cartesian Linguistics and Syntactic Structures and theorist of transformational-generative grammar, a noted MIT linguist.
This thinker illustrated one of his major theories with a "phase structure tree" relating words and phrases in a sentence, and he proposed that the abstract "deep structure" of sentences could be related to the "surface structure.
Noam {Chomsky}