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universal grammar
noun universal grammars
- A hypothetical innate abstract system in the human brain that underlies the grammar of all human languages. At this point, let's gather together various loose ends, and try and paint a simple picture of the overall model of grammar which we are moving towards. We might suppose that Universal Grammar makes available a set of category- neutral pairs of rule-schemas such as those numbered (i) and (ii) in (
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noun hypothetical system in the brain that underlies the grammar of all languages
| Español | gramática universal |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 普遍文法 pǔbiàn wénfǎ, 普遍語法 /普遍语法 pǔbiàn yǔfǎ |
| Português | gramática universal |
| Français | grammaire universelle |
| Deutsch | Universalgrammatik |
| Italiano | grammatica universale |
| Русский | универсальная грамматика universalʹnaja grammatika |
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title = {universal grammar},
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