What I mean is that humans reliably acquire language skills just by being around people who’re talking, without needing an explicit effort to train them. We are, in effect, primed to learn language; and while it’s not quite accurate to say that we have language skills by birth, it is true that many of its structural aspects come automatically just from the way human brains develop.
What I mean is that humans reliably acquire language skills just by being around people who’re talking, without needing an explicit effort to train them. We are, in effect, primed to learn language; and while it’s not quite accurate to say that we have language skills by birth, it is true that many of its structural aspects come automatically just from the way human brains develop.