Meaning Of The Word Universal grammar

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What's The Definition Of Universal grammar?

universal grammar in American English
noun: a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages

universal grammar in British English
noun: (in Chomskyan transformation linguistics) the abstract limitations on the formal grammatical description of all human languages, actual or possible, that make them human languages

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