Sentences with phrase «underlying rules of grammar»

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To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.

In the training session, participants were instructed to learn the grammar of a new language and extract the rule underlying the sequences.