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Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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Feel free to remove this, mods, if it's too tangential to modern science, but I thought the community might find this early nature vs. nurture hypothesis amusing

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[–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This should be obvious, but even children will invent basic language. You only need to look as far as the deaf community for that, that always came up with pidgin languages even as they were forced to try and learn spoken language.

There's an interesting free short documentary here: https://www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/history-deaf-education-1

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    If they're in a group with other humans. If you grow up without language like child raised by wolves then you just miss out on language completely and it's very hard to impossible to learn later once your special infant brain language tool is gone.

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