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#796 Paul Harris - Child Psychology in Twelve Questions

The Dissenter

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The Role of Genetics in Language Development

Language is not just an organ that grows spontaneously it's a skill that can be nourished by linguistic input from the surrounding family. Evidence seems to suggest that if anything the genes are more important than the environment for language development in young children. But genetic factors seem to be increasingly important as the child gets older and so do environmental factors or something else.

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