Author(s)/Creator(s)

Yusuke YagiFollow

Document Type

Poster

Language

English

Date

Summer 8-7-2020

Keywords

language, generative linguistics, universal grammar

Description/Abstract

When highly abstracted, every language in the world has something in common, i.e. universality. I elaborate this argument, support it from the fact of language acquisition, and refute the main counterargument.

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Language Interpretation and Translation

Funder(s)

Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State

Funding ID

S-ECAGD-20-CA-0009

Acknowledgements

Advisor: Carmen J Falasco, Constance Walters

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Additional Information

This work has been created with support from the Institute of International Education (IIE)/Fulbright - English for Graduate Students Program.

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