Epigenetics: innate language program (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 09, 2014, 16:08 (3675 days ago) @ David Turell

More support for Chomsky's contention that we are born with the ability to have language:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140408122316.htm-"Working with Italian newborn infants and their families, we observed that newborns react differently to good and bad word candidates, similar to what adults do. Young infants have not learned any words yet, they do not even babble yet, and still they share with us a sense of how words should sound. This finding shows that we are born with the basic, foundational knowledge about the sound pattern of human languages.
 
"It is hard to imagine how differently languages would sound if humans did not share such type of knowledge. We are fortunate that we do, and so our babies can come to the world with the certainty that they will readily recognize the sound patterns of words-no matter the language they will grow up with."