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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * "Linguistic Universal"
 * Article Evaluation
 * - tone is somewhat biased
 * - does not present balanced views (assumes that there are unrestricted universals)
 * - examples given have been questioned on the talk page
 * - could provide more information about the implication of universals
 * - lead does not reflect the content of the article
 * - Greenberg briefly mentioned in lead, but not in the discussion of terminology (could add Greenberg's classification of universals as discussed in Evans and Levinson (2009)
 * - fails to mention the universals that enjoy the most currency (e.g. constituency, recursion)
 * Sources
 * Evans and Levinson (2009)
 * Sources
 * Evans and Levinson (2009)

Option 2

 * Article title
 * "Innateness Hypothesis"
 * Article Evaluation
 * - attributes the innateness hypothesis to Putnam whereas Chomsky (1975) attributes it to Hume
 * Sources
 * Chomsky 1975
 * Sources
 * Chomsky 1975
 * Chomsky 1975

Option 3

 * Article title
 * "Prototype Theory"
 * Article Evaluation
 * - lacks inline citations
 * - lead is extremely short so no good background is given
 * -most citation links do not work
 * -not suitable for the average reader
 * -article is contradictory (Lakoff and Rosch)
 * -Prototype is not the same as a stereotype
 * Sources
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Option 5

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