First human brains must possess some a hardwired trait before we could use the basics. This brings us to the innateness debate. Deutscher discusses the stereotype of all linguists agreeing on how babies are capable of understanding grammatical concepts before even learning their ‘mother tongue’. This is not true, in fact many of them disagree having different theories involving grammar being embed in our genetic make up or how environmental stimulus plays a large role. What is known for absolute truth though is that human brains possess the ability to learn a language from a young age and to master it, a feat that only humans have
First human brains must possess some a hardwired trait before we could use the basics. This brings us to the innateness debate. Deutscher discusses the stereotype of all linguists agreeing on how babies are capable of understanding grammatical concepts before even learning their ‘mother tongue’. This is not true, in fact many of them disagree having different theories involving grammar being embed in our genetic make up or how environmental stimulus plays a large role. What is known for absolute truth though is that human brains possess the ability to learn a language from a young age and to master it, a feat that only humans have