Sentence examples for ug from inspiring English sources

Only drilling holes in the ground will show whether the geology is indeed suitable for producing and commercially exploiting UG.

Among the reasons for caution:* Estimates of European UG reserves are based on geological surveys that were not carried out with UG in mind.

UG production needs huge amounts of water and, more importantly, uses chemicals that seep into the ground (usually at a depth of several thousand metres but that could store up problems in later years).

All children assume unquestioningly (so to speak) that their linguistic environment conforms to the principles of UG.

One explanation is certainly the Chomskyan one that they are consequences of speakers' innate knowledge of UG.

On this view (1965 30-31), the inborn UG includes (i) a way of analyzing and representing the incoming linguistic data; (ii) a set of linguistic concepts with which to state grammatical hypotheses; (iii) a way of telling how the data bear on those hypotheses (an 'evaluation metric'); and (iv) a very restrictive set of constraints on the hypotheses that are available for consideration.

Clearly, in at least some areas, people are able to learn an awful lot on the basis of largely positive data, and while this of course does nothing to show that language is one of those areas, it does indicate that the Unlearning problem argument by itself is no argument for linguistic nativism at all, let alone for the Chomskyan (UG-based) version of that position.

As an example of how children add UG-constrained structure to languages learned from degraded inputs, Pinker cites the case of Simon, a deaf child studied by Newport and her colleagues, who learned American Sign Language (ASL) from parents who themselves were not exposed to ASL until their late teens.

Tomasello (2003: 182ff)., for instance, identifies two major areas of difficulty for UG-based theories, such as the principles-and-parameters approach.

In response, some non-nativists have argued that UG-based theories are not in fact good theories of language acquisition.

If only θ is a modification of UG, then it must be θ and not θ* that is internally represented.