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Is language hard-wired into the human brain?

Is language hard-wired into the human brain?

Yes
No


Votes: 232 Comments: 4 Added: September 2003
Comments:
Willbut - 19th September 2003 22:16
Maybe?
It hasn't been proved one way or the other yet.
 
Julia - 28th November 2003 19:30
I think the instruments to learn language are hard-wired into the brain but the language itself is acquired through interaction.
 
italianbrother - 26th December 2003 01:57
I’d say for someone language, any language, is hardwired in the brain, and thus with just little practice it manages to learn it well. So as Julia said: “the instruments to learn language are hard-wired into the brain” some have it more developed and some less, but practice is the only way for those with the less developed one.
 
willbut - 28th December 2003 00:37
The idea is that universal grammar, not specific, is hard-wired.
 
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