The Formalist View of Language Entails

question 25

Multiple Choice

The formalist view of language entails:

• A) the view that language is formally learned in a ritualistic manner.
• B) the understanding that language learning is prescribed by cultural rules.
• C) the view that the human mind has a faculty for language learning that is a computational-representational system.
• D) Studying language in a computer-based methodology.

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Definitions:

Fischer Diagram

A method of depicting stereoisomers of a chemical compound by projecting its three-dimensional structure onto a two-dimensional plane.

Fischer Projection

A method of representing the three-dimensional spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules by using a two-dimensional drawing where horizontal lines represent bonds coming out of the plane toward the viewer and vertical lines represent bonds going into the plane.

Reaction Product

The substances that result from the chemical transformation of reactants in a chemical reaction.

Haworth Structure

A way of representing cyclic structures of sugars in a three-dimensional manner, showing the spatial arrangement of atoms.