Various explanations have been proposed for how we acquire language, ranging from training to pure instinct.
It is an ability that almost comes naturally, at least for spoken words. Some 353,000 babies born today will understand some basic words about nine months from now. Around their first birthday, they will learn their first words, often words like “mummy” or “daddy.” Around their second birthday, they will be putting words together in their first sentences.
Other researchers in the 1950s vigorously rejected the idea that language is acquired through training. Language-learning children, they argued, are not pirouette-making pigeons. Instead, the language-learning child already has a"language mind" on its own. It does not start out with a blank slate, but instead has a built-in instinct for understanding and speaking.
I also appreciate the computational network explanation. After all, computational algorithms are able to estimate similarities between words—and why would the human mind not use procedures similar to it? What I mean is this: When considering explanations of how humans are so good at language, we often tend to leave one important aspect out—the source, language itself. It may very well be the case that we are so good at language because the language system provides us with all the linguistic cues for us to extract meaning from those seemingly meaningless symbols.If that sounds confusing, let me try to give an example with the order of words we use.
MaxLouwerse Twin studies are used elsewhere but perhaps should be involved more here as well; my twins spoke their own language before they spoke mine! They did not 'learn' words, rather 'learnt' communication between each other. Their 'babble' was meaningful vocab even using inflections.
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