How children may pick up a language (Humans)

by David Turell @, Monday, May 09, 2016, 15:28 (2871 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: However, a child can only learn from what it hears. A feral child will have no grasp of human language, but if brought up by wild animals will “speak” their language. There are known cases in which such children later had great difficulty coping with human language, which for me constitutes evidence against Chomsky's theory. - Thank you for this commentary. Very complete and persuasive.


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