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?
Position1 of 2›: We have no innate language learning faculty

This position holds that children have no innate, hardwired faculty for learning language. Drawing on the 'blank slate' hypothesis, it argues the mind is empty at birth and that language is acquired entirely through experience and environment, not built-in instinct.

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Children's brains are a blank slate at birth
According to this view posited by early linguists, philosophers, and behavioral psychologists, children are not born with any ingrained language knowledge.