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UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR, image, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cgpfw4z8cw&…

- - - - eg.: a cat, that has the same input as a baby cannot produce language like them
    - - for example, the early babbling of babies use the same set of sounds in most languages
        
        labial, stops, low vowels
      - pick up words in the same stages
    - - they have the notion of sentence structure, making questions, using modifiers...
        
        they quickly know a lot about language, but don't know other things (for example notion of maths and quantity)
    - - the limited input shows they do not acquire language simply through imitation
      - they establish logic ideas and rearrange them through time
        
        eg.: I eated or calling a horse a dog when first getting in contact with it
- - - - we are born with
        
        the notion of how a language can work
        
        the notion of what types of sentences and words we can build and what interpretations are allowed
        
        these principals are the same for everybody
      - it does NOT mean that we are born with any particular language
        
        nor with pre-estabilished rules, sounds and vocabulary
        
        we learn that