What type of questions demonstrated the problem with the structure-independent hypothesis?
Questions with relative clauses
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thief
Give points!
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rocket
Go to first place!
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rocket
Go to first place!
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thief
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What did the Jaba Experiment No. 2 demonstrate about semantics?
Children were impervious to the semantic features of the subject noun phrases.
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In order to create complex Yes/no questions: a. Children rely on semantics b. They rely on syntax c. They tend to rely on both d. They donโt adhere to any of them
b. They rely on syntax
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A structure-independent hypothesis operates on sentences as โฆโฆโฆโฆโฆ..
Strings of words
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What is an expletive?
Semantically empty dummy subjects without inherent reference.
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seesaw
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shark
Other team loses 20 points!
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thief
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TRUE OR FALSE? All the principles of the UG should emerge early in the course of development.
TRUE
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TRUE OR FALSE? According to UG, children learn structure-dependent rules.
FALSE. They are part of the human mind.
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True or False? Children take into account the syntactic rules, and the rules of structure-dependence to produce simple and complex yes/no questions.