How do/did people who never learned a language think?
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If you look into where modern linguistics and neurology cross over, for example with Noam Chomsky, you’ll find the belief of a strong bond between language and higher level reasoning where one cannot develop without the other. He also believes that human brains have strong, innate language capabilities. This explains the linguistic structures that are shared between all known human languages. So, I would sum that up as:
People who don’t learn a language will have a small, but limited ability for high level reasoning by using an innate, universal human grammar.
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