Children Have an Innate Ability to Learn Language
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or 'hypothesis-formulating' ability of unknown character and complexity.
Notes:
The complexity and variability of languages and the adeptness of children to learn them means there must be a part of the brain programmed for language.
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A review of B. F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior