RT carl feynman: Here's a marvelous paper. It proposes that genetically programmed human language learning doesn't require any genetically specified l...
A paper by Brett Reynolds proposes that human language learning is genetically programmed not through a specific language mechanism, but through a tendency to attend to rapid, rhythmical streams of actions and an effort to predict them, allowing generic learning mechanisms to handle language acquisition. This applies to spoken language, sign language, and music.