NOAM’S CHOMSKY

THEORY OF UNIVERSAL
GRAMMAR
BATRISYIA, IZZATI, QISTINA, ISMAHANI
BIOGRAPHY
◦ Avram Noam Chomsky

◦ Born December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

◦ American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,
social critic, and political activist.
NOTABLE WORKS
◦ (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton.

◦ (1966). Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar.

◦ (1966). He published Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.

◦ (1966). He also published Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the

History of Linguistics Thought.
 UNIVERSAL
GRAMMAR THEORY
◦ In the 1960s, linguist Noam Chomsky proposed a
revolutionary idea: We are all born with an innate
knowledge of grammar that serves as the basis for all
language acquisition.
◦ Chomsky believed that children will never require the
knowledge to process an infinite number of sentence if the
language acquisition was dependent on language input
alone.
◦ This aspect of universal grammar states that all children
are born with an innate ability to acquire, develop, and
understand language.
◦ Universal Grammar holds the grammatical
information to combine categories of language.

◦ Verbs, nouns into phrases.

◦ Children have the natural ability to combine it.