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Universal Grammar Is a Learning Bias
There is a defensible version of universal grammar: the child is innately biased to analyze heard speech in particular ways, pulling combinatorial rules out of the speech stream rather than recording sentences verbatim; commonalities across languages arise because language is reconstructed anew each generation by children's minds from the data their parents and peers provide.
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Steven PinkerEvidence Quote
“There are commonalities across the world’s languages that come from the fact that language is created anew every generation by the minds of the children who construct it out of the data that they get from their parents and peers.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:34:01 AM
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