"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> schreef in bericht 
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> There are good ways and bad ways to learn language.  That we have an
> instinct for it now without being taught how to learn a language implies
> an instinctive knowledge.
>

I doubt this very much. The case of the "wild childs" pleads against this. 
The "Aveyron child", in the 19th century, was unable to learn language once 
he was found in the wild. And other cases go in the same direction. So, 
language is taught by example, and is not instinctive. I am not sure, but I 
think this is also the common consensus among scientists.

Thomas

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