ABSTRACT
It seems that people have always wondered about whether language is instinctive, something that is as natural to humans as walking and smiling. They have also wondered whether, even without experiencing language, children would be able to produce it on their own. In the sixteenth century, we have the brilliant thinker Montaigne writing in his Essays,
I believe that a child brought up in complete solitude, far from all intercourse (which would be a difficult experiment to carry out) would have some kind of speech to express his ideas, for it is not likely that nature would deprive us of this recourse when she has given it to many other animals, (emphasis ours)
