Body Quote by Edward T. Hall

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

— Jonathan Lethem

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe…

— Noam Chomsky

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

— Patricia K. Kuhl

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language…

— Peter Farb

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

— Esther Hicks

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry…

— Maria Montessori

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we…

— Jeffrey Kluger

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and…

— Linda Darling-Hammond

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

— Karl Marx