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Universal grammar

"Chomsky's Universal Grammar" redirects here. For the book, see Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction.
Not to be confused with Linguistic universal.

Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky. The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be. When linguistic stimuli are received in the course of language acquisition, children then adopt specific syntactic rules that conform to UG.[1] The advocates of this theory emphasize and partially rely on the poverty of the stimulus (POS) argument and the existence of some universal properties of natural human languages. However, the latter has not been firmly established, as some linguists have argued languages are so diverse that such universality is rare,[2] and the theory of universal grammar remains controversial among linguists.[3]

  1. ^ Chomsky, Noam. "Tool Module: Chomsky's Universal Grammar". Retrieved 2010-10-07.
  2. ^ Evans, Nicholas; Levinson, Stephen C. (26 October 2009). "The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32 (5): 429–48. doi:10.1017/S0140525X0999094X. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0012-C29E-4. PMID 19857320. S2CID 2675474. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2018.
  3. ^ Christensen, Christian Hejlesen (March 2019). "Arguments for and against the Idea of Universal Grammar". Leviathan (4): 12–28. doi:10.7146/lev.v0i4.112677. S2CID 172055557.

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