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I’ve always found it interesting how children learn a language. After 3 months of crying as the only form of communication, they babble for about 6 months. Then they start to articulate single words (mama, ball etc.)—quite often even with meaning, context and while pointing at something. Once again 6 months later they start to form 2-word sentences (big bubble, my ball, mama ball, ball up etc.).

It seems that babies are already able to reason about the world in a rather complex way, for example the baby can already think that someone has the ball, but they can only express it using their limited vocabulary (mama ball etc.). It seems unlikely to me that once the baby can express the subject–object–verb sentence "mama has (the) ball" the thought processes would suddenly be replaced by grammatical constructs.

It does seem, however, that grammar can be used as a tool to verify thought processes. It casts the thoughts in a mould, so to speak, and puts it on the examination table of our echoic memory with a capacity of about 5-20 seconds. There also seems to be a higher motivation to form logically coherent thoughts when they are articulated, presumably because they are naturally intended to be interpreted by other individuals.