The ways in which humans acquire language is an excellent example of ways in which "nature" (or genetically determined capabilities) and "nurture" (or culturally engendered preferences and skills) coalesce in the average individual. All human beings are born with the potential to use language to communicate; even those individuals with profound cognitive disabilities have some innate language skills and all individuals with "normal" i
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