[theNJR]

Im in the midst of reading Pinkers the Language Instinct and the basic thesis is that language is innate. Preventing language would be like preventing eating.

The sing-song thing is cultural but powerful. It’s hard (for me) to not default to it with my one year old.

Edit: LOL I clearly commented before reading the article.

[OfSanguineFire]

We know of cases where, due to living early years in isolation, a human being was prevented from learning full-fledged language, e.g. Genie.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)