Discussion
Why is "Universal grammar" so called ?
Answer: B
Universal grammar is so called because it is a set of basic grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages. The idea, associated with Noam Chomsky, is that all human languages share an innate core of principles that every child is born with, and that this explains how children learn the grammar of any language so quickly.
It is not a set of principles that people universally follow or recognise, and it is not a body of respected practices that came to be called grammar, which describes prescriptive grammar. The third option mentions advanced principles, which is not the claim, since the principles are basic and not advanced.
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