Round 9: Tossup 11

This faculty has telegraphic and holophrastic forms among children, who practice fast mapping with it. People struggle with this faculty as a result of IvPPA, a form of degeneration of the angular gyrus (-5[1])associated with Alzheimer’s. (-5[1])Broca’s (-5[1])area (-5[1])helps produce (15[1])this faculty (-5[1])while Wernicke’s area helps (-5[2])process (-5[1])it, and both (-5[1])can be affected by (15[1])(*) aphasia. Because children have a poverty 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 and grammar. ■END■ (10[7]0[4])

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