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In the context of ‘nature-nurture’ debate in Linguistics, there is a view that there must be an innate core of abstract knowledge about language form. which pre-specifies a framework for all natural human languages and is currently known as ‘Universal Grammar’.
Among the following, who is the linguist proposing this view?
1. Claude Levi-Strauss
2. Noam Chomsky
3. Roland Barthes
4. Richard Rorty
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Noam Chomsky is a renowned linguist who proposed the theory of Universal Grammar. According to Chomsky, Universal Grammar is an innate set of linguistic principles shared by all humans, which forms the foundation of all human languages.
This idea is a key aspect of his work in the nature-nurture debate within linguistics, emphasizing that certain aspects of language are inherent to the human mind rather than learned entirely through interaction with the environment.
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