TED-Ed
What do all languages have in common? - Cameron Morin
2020 • E73 Jun 28, 2020 5m
Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we’re able to do so from an early age— almost as soon as we start to communicate in sentences. How is this possible? In the early 1950s, Noam Chomsky proposed a theory that the key to this versatility was grammar. Cameron Morin details Chomsky's theory of universal grammar.
Lesson by Cameron Morin, directed by Eoin Duffy.
Lesson by Cameron Morin, directed by Eoin Duffy.