Famous quotes containing the words cradle and/or device:
“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.”
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)
“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a ‘language acquisition device,’ an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)