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6. What percentage of languages use subject-object-verb?
7. How many signs did Washoe the chimpanzee learn?
8. What is not true of Chomsky's critique of B.F Skinner's views?
- Children learn language much quicker than they should if they make random sounds then correct words then get reinforced
- How can operant conditioning ever produce the infinite variety of language?
- Mental representations, thought and feelings influence the development of language
- How is it possible that children learn language so quickly?
9. What is the estimate of the origin of language?
- 200,000 years ago
- 300,000 years ago
- 100,000 years ago
- 500,000 years ago
10. What percentage of languages use subject-verb-object?
11. How old were the first written records?
- 7000 years old
- 5000 years old
- 1000 years old
- 10,000 years old
12. What aged child can animals never reach the language level of?
- 4 year old
- 6 year old
- 2 year old
- 5 year old
13. What was Nim Chimpsky never able to do?
- Form novel combinations or learn syntax
- Form regular combinations or learn syntax
- Form regular combinations or learn semantics
- Form novel combinations or learn semantics
14. What is an example of the algorithm level in terms of language?
- Whether there are certain rules underlying language
- What parts of the brain are involved in language
- How people use language
- Why people use language
15. Which is not a claim of Chomsky's?
- When children learn a language, they have to learn the entire grammar
- The systems involved in language are independent from the rest of the brain
- All humans are born with a module for language learning
- All languages share an innate universal grammar
16. What is the hardware implementation level (Marr)?
- How the algorithm is physically implemented
- Why it uses the particular algorithm
- What is the algorithm that it uses
- Precise description of what the brain can do
