Friday, October 2, 2009

Language's development (biological or cultural?)

Carmen Solis
Dr. Hughes

The human being has a massive capacity to learn a language. Many people have tried to explain how an individual learns and adapt to a language. In the medical science, scientists believe that in our brains we have a membrane or a gene that is responsible to develop a language. Also, there are many writers that have argued about this topic whether language is learned biological or cultural; Pinker and Dalrymple are one of them. They explain thoroughly in their writing how language is developed in a human-being. Pinker states that language is an ability that comes naturally; Dalrymple explains that the cultural environment that one lives in has a great influence on the language. As a matter of fact, language's development is biological and cultural.

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