Universal grammar: are we born knowing the rules of language? – Science weekly podcast

Do all human languages share a universal grammar? And can science shed light on a schism that’s divided the world of linguistics for over half a century?Subscribe & Review on iTunes, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud & AcastIn the 1960s, world-renowned MIT linguist Professor Noam Chomsky declared his theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Often defined as “a system of categories, mechanisms and constraints, shared by all human languages and considered to be innate”, Chomsky&rs