Chomsky's theory challenged the belief that language development was solely influenced by environmental factors, arguing that all human languages share underlying syntactic categories and grammatical features. While this theory led to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, research has showed that many concepts are not universal and speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world differently.
Linguistics argue that language is not a cultural artifact but instead, a biological and cognitive aspect of language in our brains.
However, while in English people refers to time in spatial terms, speakers of Amazonian languages do not do that and in fact, some languages do not have a word for time.
The book Myriad of Tongues, presents profound insights about the fundamentals of human communication and Caleb Everett takes readers around the globe explaining what linguistic diversity tells about human culture.
