Chomsky's innateness hypothesis is based on his observations that some important facts can never be otherwise explained adequately.

乔姆斯基认为语言天生，儿童与生拥有一种语言学习能力，叫做" 语言习得机制" 。这一种让他们适合语言学习独特知识。乔指出儿童天生被赋予一种能力，不仅包学习语言趋势和潜能，还包关于语言性质知识。从这种观点可看出，儿童天生拥有语法关系及语法范畴知识，并且这种知识。这种处理语言方法，对心理学行为主义和哲学上经验主义一种挑战，并使语言学成为了心理学一个分支。乔姆斯基天赋假设建立在他对一些重要现象观察基础之上，这些现象无法用其他理论解释清楚。

11-1-2-1No Innate Ideas It is obvious that if Locke is going to say that all ideas come from experience, he must reject the theory of innateness.

11-1-2-1没有先天想法很明显，如果洛克要说所有想法都自经验，他必须拒绝先天性理论。

Formalists, represented by Chomsky, argue that children are born with language talent(the innateness hypothesis), and they can acquire mother tongue with few efforts in a short time span.

以乔姆斯基为代表形式主义者认为，儿童生就具有语言天赋（先天假说），他们可以在短时间内不费力气地习得母语。