Social scientists once believed that children learned language simply by learning it from those around them. Linguistic studies took a turn when Chomsky proposed first came across the idea that humans have an inherent ability to learn language. He realized that children did not simply imitate what they heard; rather, they attempted to apply certain rules. The idea of universal grammar was born offers explanations regarding the language as human instinct. Steven Pinker shares a similar view to Chomsky regarding universal grammar in his book The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind. He is of the position that language is a unique human ability that has been acquired through learning. evolution to become the communicative problem-solving beings we are today. By studying how language is learned, how it works, and how it changes, Pinker concludes that language is not an invention or a sign of advanced intelligence, but rather a human ability. innate. It states that all the rules that need to be taught, such as not starting a sentence with a conjunction...
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