A more controversial claim is that all human languages share what Mr Chomsky calls " universal grammar" .

更有争议的说法是，所有人类语言都有乔姆斯基所说的“通用语法”。

The theory of universal grammar prompted the documentation and study of many languages that hadn't been studied before.

通用语法理论促使对许多以前未被研究过的语言进行记录和研究。

When Chomsky proposed universal grammar, many languages lacked the volume of recorded samples necessary to analyze them using generative syntax.

当乔姆斯基提出通用语法时，许多语言缺乏使用生成语法分析它们所必需的记录样本量。

When he first proposed universal grammar, the idea that there was a genetically determined aspect of language acquisition had a profound, revolutionary impact.

当他第一次提出通用语法时，语言习得的遗传决定方面的想法产生了深远的革命性影响。

As more linguist data was gathered and analyzed, it became clear that languages around the world differ widely, challenging the theory that there were universal grammar rules.

随着越来越多的语言学家收集和分析数据，很明显世界各地的语言差异很大，这对存在通用语法规则的理论提出了挑战。

He labelled this faculty universal grammar, and it launched lines of inquiry that shaped both the field of linguistics and the emerging field of cognitive science for decades to come.

他给这种能力贴上了通用语法的标签，它发起了在未来几十年塑造语言学领域和新兴认知科学领域的探究路线。

Recursion was a good candidate for a universal grammar rule because it can take many forms. However, in 2005 linguists published findings on an Amazonian language called Piraha, which doesn't appear to have any recursive structures.

递归是通用语法规则的一个很好的候选者， 因为它可以采用多种形式。然而，2005 年语言学家发表了关于一种名为 Piraha 的亚马逊语言的研究结果， 该语言似乎没有任何递归结构。

Chomsky and other researchers set out to investigate the two main components of universal grammar: first, whether there are, in fact, grammar rules that are universal to all languages, and, second, whether these rules are hardwired in the brain.

乔姆斯基和其他研究人员着手研究通用语法的两个主要组成部分：首先，事实上是否存在对所有语言通用的语法规则， 其次，这些规则是否在大脑中是硬连接的。