AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chomsky argued that the human brain contains a limited set of constraints for organizing language. This implies in turn that all languages have a common structural basis: the set of rules known as “universal grammar".

Detailed explanation-2: -universal grammar (UG) (noun): a theory in linguistics usually credited to Noam Chomsky that suggests that the ability to learn grammar is built into the human brain from birth regardless of language. In the 1960s, linguists became interested in a new theory about grammar, or the laws of language.

Detailed explanation-3: -He has made a number of strong claims about language: in particular, he suggests that language is an innate faculty-that is to say that we are born with a set of rules about language in our minds, which he refers to as the ‘Universal Grammar’. The universal grammar is the basis upon which all human languages build.

Detailed explanation-4: -Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar says that we’re all born with an innate understanding of the way language works.

Detailed explanation-5: -A universal grammar would suggest that all languages possess the same set of categories and relations and that in order to communicate through language, speakers make infinite use of finite means, an idea that Wilhelm von Humboldt suggested in the 1830s.