Universal-grammar
noun, Linguistics.
1.
a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
2.
an innate system of principles underlying the human language faculty.
universal grammar
noun
1.
(linguistics) (in Chomskyan transformation linguistics) the abstract limitations on the formal grammatical description of all human languages, actual or possible, that make them human languages
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