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Universal Grammar (English: Universal Grammar, UG) is a linguistic theory associated with linguist Noam Chomsky that posits human language capacity is grounded in an innate biological foundation. According to this approach, humans are not born programmed to learn a specific language (such as English, Turkish, or Chinese); rather, they innately acquire abstract and universal “principles” that underlie all human languages.This theory argues that language acquisition results from the interaction of

Noam Chomsky’s psycholinguistic theory argues that language acquisition is not merely a behavioral process based on environmental stimuli and imitation, but rather grounded in an innate biological mechanism present in the human mind. According to this theory, every human is born with a genetic capacity predisposed to language acquisition. This capacity enables children to rapidly acquire their native language through the principles of Universal Grammar and the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).T