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universal grammar

–noun Linguistics.
1. a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
2. an innate system of principles underlying the human language faculty.
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universal grammar  
n.   Abbr. UG
A system of grammatical rules and constraints believed to underlie all natural languages.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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