In this text I will discuss what types of evidence there is that humans have specific abilities to acquire and use language, as distinct from the ability to communicate or use various types of vocality or dyslexia. other body gestures. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay Human language is unique among all forms of animal language. It is unlikely that any other species, including our closest genetic cousins, the Neanderthals, ever had a language. The reason human language is so far superior to animal language is that humans can communicate “about.” What I'm trying to say is that we can talk about something, for example the weather. Several factors come into play when it comes to language development. The ability to learn and use language is biologically hardwired into the human brain. The human mind/brain is composed of different modules evolved by natural selection. Language is a type of knowledge. Language combines basic units into larger objects. One could also say that language is a combinatorial system, with different modules (components). Several factors determine how well we are able to acquire language, such as acquired deficit, critical age and deficit. Acquired deficiency is a lesion on a specific part of the brain. Acquired dyslexia is a deficit that affects the ability to read. More specifically, brain damage to the left hemisphere. Two types of acquired dyslexia have been identified: deep dyslexia and superficial dyslexia. Profound dyslexia causes the person to have difficulty reading the word correctly. The answer is related to the target word. They were able to match the words to the chosen word. “People who suffer from profound dyslexia also have particular difficulty reading function words such as prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliaries.” The problems that people with profound dyslexia have are similar to those with agrammatic aphasia. People with agrammatic aphasia and profound dyslexia provide evidence that content words and function words have their place in the human brain. People who suffer from surface dyslexia have difficulty with whole word recognition and spelling. In particular they have difficulty understanding irregular words such as "debt", but words such as "mint" are spoken fluently. This is because they cannot perceive the pronunciation, as normal people can. They can't see the connection like others. We can see that Broca's and Wernick's areas of the brain play an important role in language acquisition. Damage to Broca's area affects function words. Damage in Wernick's area largely affects grammar (word choice). These disorders demonstrate that there are certain parts of the brain where language is processed. Critical age is another factor that comes into play when it comes to language acquisition. The human mind is created to understand language. But you can't learn something without trying and failing. The most important factor in language acquisition is exposure. “Children who do not receive linguistic input during their formative years do not achieve native-like grammatical competence.” A good example of someone who hasn't gotten the exposure gained is a girl nicknamed Genie. Genie was taken away from her father at the age of 12 (after the critical age) by child services. Genie then began trying to acquire language at age 13. Genie was admitted to the hospital where they did several brain tests to see if there were any problems..