A Quote by Adrienne Rich
Experience is always larger than language.
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I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty 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.
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