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UG
 
Short for “Universal Grammar,” and generally assumed to be biology's (the human genome's) contribution to the uniquely human mental system known as the language faculty. As explained in the text, UG used to be thought to be complex and rich, but in minimalist form it may amount to Merge alone. See
Merge
,
language faculty
.
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