He posited that children learn language by testing their hypotheses against PLD, in his language acquisition device theory.
This man championed the poverty of the stimulus argument, and his X-bar theory holds that all phrase structures are reducible to recursive specifier-head configurations. He posited that children learn language by testing their hypotheses against PLD, in his language acquisition device theory. He developed the idea of transformational-generative grammars and demonstrated a category mistake with the example "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in his magnum opus Syntactic Structures. For 10 points, name this American linguist and MIT professor.
This man championed the poverty of the stimulus argument, and his X-bar theory holds that all phrase structures are reducible to recursive specifier-head configurations.
Noam {Chomsky}