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Generative Grammar

Humaira Khairunnisa bt. Mohamad Hamdan

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Fundamental Approach

to Knowledge

  • Though constantly evolving, it stands as a microcosm of his views on the human mind's methods of taking in and storing information.
  • Way of describing the way people learn to communicate.
  • The core of this theory is the idea that all human language originates from a common source, an innate set of grammatical rules and approaches that is hardwired into the human mind.
  • Similar with the used in Information Processing Theory (Miller).
  • In order to be retained, there must be previous knowledge present for the new information to be associated with.
  • Once knowledge integrated into a network, specifically procedural knowledge, it will become irreducible in complexity.

Contributions to

Psychology

Contributions to Linguistics

  • Chomsky formed based on the assumption that every language had similar parameters that could be manipulated and modified.
  • He contributed to the field of phonology and influenced the works of other experts, including Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth Bates.
  • Chomsky’s linguistic discoveries have benefited the field of psychology in many ways as well in which linguistics itself is a discipline of cognitive psychology and strives to understand how language is learned and used by children.
  • Syntactic Structures was a distillation of his book Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory in which he introduces transformational grammars.
  • The theory takes utterances (sequences of words) to have a syntax which can be (largely) characterized by a formal grammar; in particular, a Context-free grammar extended with transformational rules.
  • Every child has an inborn capacity to learn language.
  • This innate capacity called Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
  • Born with all the things they need to produce language and biologically programmed for language.
  • 7 years old is critical period to learn language, they have natural instinct to learn language.
  • LAD allows children to interpret phoneme patterns, word meanings and the rules that govern language.

Conclusion

Language and its Acquisition

In conclusion, Chomsky is not a psychologist. He credited with the creation of his theory of Generative Grammar or Universal Grammar. He also formed his own hierarchy of grammar studies. Noam Chomsky has a lot of minor theories but he focused more on the theory of Knowledge, the used of grammar and cognitive development. He believes that children learned language naturally, not by imitation. A child has an inborn capacity to learn language and that innate capacity called Language Acquisition Device (LAD). The understanding about his cognitive development learning is similar used of Information-Processing Theory by George Miller. He had done some contributions to Linguistics and Psychology.

His Theories

Avram Noam Chomsky

Chomsky Hierarchy

The Nativist

  • Theory of Value
  • Theory of Knowledge
  • Theory of Human Nature
  • Theory of Learning
  • Theory of Transmisson
  • Theory of Society
  • Theory of Opportunity
  • Theory of Consensus
  • Not a psychologist or psychiatrist.
  • He has had a large impact on psychology, linguistics and other fields.
  • Credited with the creation of theory of generative grammar.

The Nativist emphasis on nature which a person's behavior and capabilities are largely predetermined.

Cognitive Development Theory

by Noam Chomsky

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