Is the ability to learn language hardwired into children's brains?

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Question: Is the ability to learn language hardwired into children's brains?
Position‹2 of 2: Language learning is hardwired into our brains

This position holds that the ability to learn language is hardwired into children's brains. Drawing on the innateness hypothesis, it argues children are born with the mental structures needed to acquire language—including an inbuilt 'Universal Grammar' common to all humans.

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Children are born knowing a Universal Grammar
The grammatical knowledge that children need to learn language is already present at birth, which explains why children do not typically need formal instruction to acquire language.