Ability Quote by Noam Chomsky

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar,…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features of what…

— Noam Chomsky

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

“Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination of words.…

— James Crawford

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

— Eleanor Catton

The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress…

— Noam Chomsky

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all.…

— Paul Desmond

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that…

— Noam Chomsky

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

— Michael Crichton

The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to…

— Lev S. Vygotsky