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Children build a full grammar from scraps of speech, which shows the capacity is wired in from birth.
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Grammar purists who scold everyday speech misunderstand how human speech actually works.
The Language Instinct
Language is not a cultural invention but a biological adaptation, as natural to us as webs are to spiders.
L'Instinct du langage