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2. Universal grammar - Wikipedia

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   Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be.

3. Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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   Chomsky developed transformational grammar in the mid-1950s, whereupon it became the dominant syntactic theory in linguistics for two decades. [164] " Transformations" refers to syntactic relationships within language, e.g., being able to infer that the subject between two sentences is the same person. [ 166 ]

4. Chomsky hierarchy - Wikipedia

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   The Chomsky hierarchy in the fields of formal language theory, computer science, and linguistics, is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. A formal grammar describes how to form strings from a language's vocabulary (or alphabet) that are valid according to the language's syntax.

5. Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction - Wikipedia

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   The universal grammar is a study of "I-language" (internalized language), not "E-language" (externalized language). Cook distinguishes Chomsky's linguistic universals from implicational universals. [1] On first-language acquisition (FLA), Cook presents Chomsky's nativist perspective—that humans are born with innate knowledge of natural language.

6. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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   The grammar model discussed in Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures (1957) Chomsky's transformational grammar has three parts: phrase structure rules, transformational rules and morphophonemic rules. [68] The phrase structure rules are used for expanding lexical categories and for substitutions. These yield a string of morphemes. A ...

7. Levels of adequacy - Wikipedia

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   A linguistic theory that aims for explanatory adequacy is concerned with the internal structure of the device [i.e. grammar]; that is, it aims to provide a principled basis, independent of any particular language, for the selection of the descriptively adequate grammar of each language.

8. Principles and parameters - Wikipedia

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   Principles and parameters was largely formulated by the linguists Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik. Many linguists have worked within this framework, and for a period of time it was considered the dominant form of mainstream generative linguistics. [1] Principles and parameters as a grammar framework is also known as government and binding theory.

9. Lexicalist hypothesis - Wikipedia

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   The lexicalist hypothesis is a hypothesis proposed by Noam Chomsky in which he claims that syntactic transformations only can operate on syntactic constituents. [ambiguous] [jargon] [1] It says that the system of grammar that assembles words is separate and different from the system of grammar that assembles phrases out of words.