Acquisition Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to…

— Noam Chomsky

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 gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

— Lewis Thomas

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna

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

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally…

— Steven Pinker

The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new…

— Noam Chomsky

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe