The Arguments for Universal Grammar

There are various arguments put in favor of universal grammar. One is that children learn language from an early age and so there must be something sort of inbuilt into them some genetically programmed knowledge that they come with which it allows them to make that determination. Another argument is that we're capable of understanding all sorts of sentences which have never been heard before. Next time i'll talk about the remaining issues of syntax and semantics and pragmatics. We'll look at how those uh shape language.