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Originally Posted by sabrina
Hi everyone!
The other day some English-Teacher friends were discussing over a coffee the Chomsky theory that says that every human being is biologically equipped to create a language that has the same basic linguistic structure.
Do you think this is true? I mean, what about Chinese, Japanese, the Arabic languages or Indigenous dialects...Do they have the same Subject + Verb + Predicate basic structure or not? 
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Hi, Sabrina
I see what you mean
I believe what Chomsky said was related to the Western civilization, that is my interpretation of his work.
I remember at Language school we were doing some exercises on how we would build a sentence without knowing any word of it but doing it almost automatically.
As for Eastern cultures, I am not sure Chomsky's theory would apply... or would it?