Literary Articles

Poverty of stimulus  Poverty of stimulus is a key concept in Chomsky’s theory of UG. According to him human brain is pre-programmed...

Projection Problem  Projection problem is the term used for the theory of “Poverty of the Stimulus” which has been given by Chomsky...

Negative Evidence ‘Negative evidence’ refers to the wrong or ungrammatical expressions. Negative evidence is a part of Chomsky’s un...

Pied-piping and prepositional stranding Pied-piping describes the situation where a phrase larger than a single wh-word occurs in t...

Pro-drop parameter One of the important parameters in UG is pro-drop parameter. A pro-drop language is a language in which certain ...

Unmarked and Markedness According to UG there are certain innate principles in human mind, by which a child gradually develops its ...

Core and Peripheral Grammar In UG core and peripheral grammar can be defined as a set of rules that a child learns as a part of its...

Principles and parameters In UG principles and parameters can be defined as a framework in hunan brain and help the acquisition of ...

LAD Language acquisition device or LAD is the innate human ability to learn a language.It is the key concept in Chomsky’s theory of...

Universal grammar can be simply defined as a set of universal innate principles of grammar shared by all languages.That a child will not ...

Learning a language is certainly different from learning other arts such as walking,playing,swimming etc.It is different in the sense tha...