Universal Grammar

Universal Grammar

He later expanded this idea into that of Universal Grammar, a set of innate principles and adjustable parameters that are common to all human languages.

 All the languages of the world have the same basic underlying grammatical structure. All the languages of the world share similar characteristics of using nouns, verbs, pronouns though necessarily in a similar manner.   Chomsky points out that a child could not possibly learn a language through imitation alone because the language spoken around them is highly irregular – adult’s speech is often broken up and even sometimes ungrammatical.  Every language is extremely complex, However, all children, regardless of their intellectual ability, become fluent in their native language within five or six years.  The LAD also allows children to understand the rules of whatever language they are listening to.