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universal grammar

n. Abbr. UG

A system of grammatical rules and constraints believed to underlie all natural languages.

universal grammar

(Linguistics) Linguistics (in Chomskyan transformation linguistics) the abstract limitations on the formal grammatical description of all human languages, actual or possible, that make them human languages

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universal grammar (redirected from Innate grammar)

universal grammar
(redirected from Innate grammar)