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Answer 1 (4th option): Before Chomskyan Revolution, linguists focused on the description of the language (e.g., finding phonemes and morphemes for each language), but Chomsky claimed that all languages have a basic syntactic configuration that we are mentally hardwired to learn and use (McWhorter). Answer 2 (1st option): “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” correctly follows all the syntactic rules in English, but not the semantic rules (McWhorter). Answer 3 (2nd option): Since children are aware of the hierarchical structure of the relative clause such as CP and VP (McWhorter). Answer 4 (4th option): Both Edward ...
