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If I remember the book correctly, Pinker was saying that the ability to learn language (i.e., the ability to acquire vocabulary and work out grammar rules) is innate, but that potential will never be realised without language input from the people around the infant. If children don't hear (or see in the case of sign languages) language being used before puberty it's too late.
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