The generative grammar

Chomsky says that there is a universal grammar that is part of the genetic heritage of human beings, which at birth, we have a basic linguistic pattern determining which are molded all languages​​. This unique capability is unique to the human species and the common use of language is evidence of the big possibilities of the creative potential linguistic of humanity. Indeed, Chomsky realized that the skill with which children learn the language even though they had little experience outside and lacking even a framework on which to base their understanding, may be due to the ability to not only the language but also basic grammar are innate is almost certain, he says, that people are not born 'programmed' for a language in particuar (a Chinese baby raised in USA speak English to an American identically while circling an American of Chinese-speaking people speak identically to a Chinese Chinese) fashion such that there is a universal grammar underlying structure of all languages​​. Chomsky used a system of symbols comparable to mathematical operations in order to make operations such universal grammar. The controversy between these two possibilities given by heredity or environmental influences, has a long history. The truth is that it is extremely difficult to make a strict separation between the two categories, because their deployment to the reality seems to demonstrate that both merge and feed. As is known, the theoretical line of behaviorism, argues that all behavior is acquired through learning since birth, humans are blank tables and for this reason it is possible to mold any conduct in humans through training. Chomsky criticizes the behaviorist position as it believes that its simplicity is not consistent with what happens in reality. In the particular case of language, it is remarkable how children manage to master something so complex in a short time and without any systematic instruction. However, every child around his second year of life, with the capacity to start using a system comprising numerous grammatical principles that could not be learned because the available data about the system itself, is clearly insufficient. The question is therefore whether it is possible to learn the grammar, because even for a professional linguist and made difficult by complex grammatical subtleties list involved in the creation of the sentences to be counted as 'correct', it is clearly stated in the wide variety of possible combinations. Studying a single paragraph brings to the table a rich analysis of subtle interrelationships coherent system within a grammatical system. Indeed, most of the prayers reducible to a mathematical structure are probably 'ungrammatical' and yet it is difficult to explain why these are 'wrong'. Chomsky believes that the nature of language study is necessary to understand what happens in the body of the child with the information that enters the grammatical constructions and then emerge from it through the use of language. This makes it possible to build an idea about the mental operations of the agency and the transition between what goes in and what comes out. To understand the nature of grammatical rules that providers use in simple sentences, we have to propose abstract structures and direct connection with the physical facts that take form to enter data and can only be derived by abstract nature and mental operations .