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The main aim of this writing is to formulate the theory of universal grammar. The formulation made is taken form discussion on a close look at the universal grammar which of summary proposed by Greenberg and Hawkins.
Soepomo Peodjosoedarmo
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Students and the teaching of Arabic grammar at Jordanian schools [PDF]
The main purpose of this study is to explore the reasons for students' weaknesses in grammar at Jordanian schools, taking as an example the upper basic stage (ages 14-16 years) in the Al-karak district.
Al-Qudah, Hatem Ahmed
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Basque syntax and universal grammar
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Rudolf P. G. de Rijk
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Type Theory and Universal Grammar
The paper takes a look at the history of the idea of universal grammar and compares it with multilingual grammars, as formalized in the Grammatical Framework, GF.
Aarne Ranta
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Proponents of a Universal Grammar argue that humans are born with a dedicated language system that shapes and restricts the number of grammars found in human languages (Chomsky, 2005). It is essentially innate and has a genetic manifestation.
Christian Kliesch
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الملكات الذّهنيّة ودورها في اكتساب اللّغة : مقاربة عرفانيّة
This paper explores the cognitive approach to language acquisition and reproduction, arguing that humans possess innate brain systems that enable cognitive authority, including language, music, and visual understanding.
Madjdi Ben Souf
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Maturational Constraints on SLA: Access to Universal Grammar [PDF]
Some scholars have argued that there is a negative correlation between the onset age of L2 acquisition and performance on different measures of L2 knowledge. A kind of biological scheduling is assumed to be responsible for this maturational constraint on
hasan iravani, parviz birjandi
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Access to Second Language Acquisition
This paper discusses the different views on the availability of UG principles in language acquisition of adult second language learners, and summarizes some of the evidence for or against each position. One important issue in current language acquisition
Mahmoud H Jabballa
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Subtle implicit language facts emerge from the functions of constructions
Much has been written about the unlikelihood of innate, syntax-specific, universal knowledge of language (Universal Grammar) on the grounds that it is biologically implausible, unresponsive to cross-linguistic facts, theoretically inelegant, and ...
Adele Eva Goldberg
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In this note we present an elementary proof of the following result due to T. Kasai: for each alphabet Σ there exists a context free grammar G such that for each context-free language K over Σ a regular control set C can be found such that G controlled by C and operating in the leftmost fashion generates K.
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