Pretty Shack Scent

British Accent
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The sky is the limit

He Neigh Tea

Innate
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Natural
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Universal
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Key
Noam Chomsky
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Goo Ram Air
Universal
GRAMM
AR
POMPEIU G. FRIAS
Universal
Grammar
 credited to Noam Chomsky

“ that the human brain

contains an innate mental
grammar that helps humans
acquire language”
Universal
Grammar
 Roger Bacon, 13th-century Franciscan
Friar and a philosopher

“ that all languages are built

upon a common grammar.”
 CHALLENGES and CRITICISMS
Swarthmore College linguist K. David Harrison noted
in The Economist, "I and many fellow linguists would
estimate that we only have a detailed scientific
description of something like 10% to 15% of the world's
languages, and for 85% we have no real documentation
at all. Thus, it seems premature to begin constructing
grand theories of universal grammar. If we want to
understand universals, we must first know the
particulars."
 BEHAVIORIST THEORY OF
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Language learning is merely a process of trial
and error, of stimuli and response, guided by
the concept of reinforcement.
 CHOMSKY’S REBUTTAL AS
DESCRIBED PINKER (1994)
…every sentence that a person utters or
understands is a brand-new combination of
words… therefore, a language cannot be a
repertoire of responses; the brain must contain a
recipe or program that can build an unlimited set
of sentences out of finite list of words.
 References
● https://worldenglishes.lmc.gatech.edu/universal-grammar-ug/#:~:t
ext=Universal%20Grammar%20(UG)%20is%20a,that%20helps%
20humans%20acquire%20language
.

● https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/theory/universal.htm

● https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/outil_rouge06.html

● https://www.thoughtco.com/universal-grammar-1692571