Famous quotes containing the words nye and/or system:
“I’m not interested in
who suffered the most.
I’m interested in
people getting over it.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)
“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)