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- What are the parameters of universal grammar?
- What is true about universal grammar?
- Do all languages have universal grammar?
- What are the parameters of language?
What are the parameters of universal grammar?
(1)Language Universals: (All) human languages share certain properties. (2)Convergence: Children are exposed to different input yet converge on the same grammar. (3)Poverty of the Stimulus: Children acquire knowledge for which there is no evidence in the input.
What is true about universal grammar?
This “universal grammar theory” suggests that every language has some of the same laws. For example, every language has a way to ask a question or make something negative. In addition, every language has a way to identify gender or show that something happened in the past or present.
Do all languages have universal grammar?
This implies in turn that all languages have a common structural basis: the set of rules known as "universal grammar". Speakers proficient in a language know which expressions are acceptable in their language and which are unacceptable.
What are the parameters of language?
Parameters are properties that individual languages have that differentiate them from other languages. It has been assumed that there is a universal set of parameters for languages to draw upon, though there is no hard core evidence to support this interesting view.
