perhaps babies develop a sense of “hierarchy” which then gets applied to language, explaining how children learn languages so fast.
Though if we are to believe this paper at face value (I haven’t evaluated it), babies start learning in the womb. (The paper claims that the biases depend on which language is spoken around the pregnant mother, which suggests that it must be learned, rather than being “built-in”.)
Though if we are to believe this paper at face value (I haven’t evaluated it), babies start learning in the womb. (The paper claims that the biases depend on which language is spoken around the pregnant mother, which suggests that it must be learned, rather than being “built-in”.)