Packet 9: Tossup 11

This faculty has telegraphic and holophrastic forms among children, (-5[1])who practice fast mapping with it. People struggle with this faculty as a result of IvPPA, (-5[1])a form of degeneration of the angular gyrus (-5[1])associated with Alzheimer’s. (-5[2])Broca’s (-5[2])area (-5[2])helps (15[1])produce (15[1])this faculty (15[3]-5[1])while Wernicke’s area (15[1])helps (-5[2])process (-5[1])it, and both (-5[1])can be (15[1])affected by (15[1])(*) aphasia. Because children (10[1])have a poverty (10[1])of the stimulus with regards to this faculty, (10[1])Noam Chomsky argued for an "acquisition device” in the brain for this faculty that processes “Universal” (10[1])rules. For 10 points, name this phenomenon (10[1])for which the brain has to process semantics (-5[1])and grammar. ■END■ (10[8]0[5])

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