Chomsky Language Acquisition Quotes & Sayings

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language. — Noam Chomsky

Because you cannot study the acquisition or use of language in an intelligent manner without having some idea about this language which is acquired or utilized. — Noam Chomsky