You're having a friendly argument with some friends at a party about whether language is in a certain sense 'innate' to all humans. They think it's not, because it's 'obviously learned'. You decide to argue that, while many aspects of each language must indeed be learned, in certain important ways it is still true that the capacity to not only learn but even create a language is innate in all of us, at least as children. What evidence can you point to? Select ALL of the points below that support the argument that language is in certain ways innate. 多项选择题

A

Communities of Deaf children can create a new language out of the blue

B

Certain perceptual experiments (The 'Sucking Experiments') indicate that all newborns can hear all the complex sounds of Salishan languages (though the ability to discriminate is quickly lost, if not reinforced).

C

Communities of children growing up on plantations hearing only a pidgin regularly 'creolize' the system, creating fully complex human languages.

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