Linguistic principles and structures that appear across all human languages, supporting theories about innate language capacity and universal aspects of human cognition.
Example: All languages having nouns and verbs, rules for forming questions, and systematic ways of expressing temporal relationships, despite surface differences in vocabulary and structure.
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