http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/opinion/fish-scholarship-and-politics-the-case-of-noam-chomsky.html?ref=topics&_r=0
http://www.simplypsychology.org/language.html
Chomsky argued that children will never acquire the tools needed for processing an infinite number of sentences if the language acquisition mechanism was dependent on language input alone.
Consequently, he proposed the theory of Universal Grammar: the idea that biological grammatical categories, such as a noun category and a verb category that facilitate the entire language development in children and overall language processing in adults.
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