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The 24 pages that link to Universal grammar, each with the reason it gives.

• Language acquisitionRelated: It represents the claim that acquisition depends on knowledge not derived solely from exposure.

• Noam ChomskyRelated: Chomsky used it to explain how children acquire complex grammar from limited experience.

• Generative grammarRelated: Many generative theories explain cross-language patterns by positing shared grammatical principles.

• Grammar (linguistics)Related: It proposes an account of what grammatical knowledge languages may have in common.

• Critical period hypothesisRelated: It is often paired with age-sensitive accounts of how innate language capacities develop.

• LinguisticsRelated: It is a prominent theory about the human capacity for language.

• Transformational grammarRelated: Chomsky’s account connects the structure of individual grammars to claims about shared human linguistic capacity.

• Language (cognitive faculty)Related: It is a prominent account of the knowledge underlying language acquisition.