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universal grammars

universal grammars is the plural of universal grammar.

Meaning of universal grammar

Noun

universal grammar (plural universal grammars)

  1. A hypothetical innate abstract system in the human brain that underlies the grammar of all human languages.
    • At this point, let's gather together various loose ends, and try and paint a
      simple picture of the overall model of grammar which we are moving towards.
      We might suppose that Universal Grammar makes available a set of category-
      neutral pairs of rule-schemas such as those numbered (i) and (ii) in...1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 5, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 276

Questions about universal grammars

What is universal grammars the plural of?
Universal grammars is the plural of universal grammar.

Words near universal grammars in the dictionary

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