Cultural transmission [mark=#FFFF00]
Cultural transmission is the process whereby knowledge of a
language is passed from one generation to the next[/mark]. We acquire a
language in a culture with other speakers and not from parental
genes. It is clear that humans are born with some kind of
predisposition to acquire language in a general sense. The general
pattern in animal communication is that creatures are born with a
set of specific signals that are produced instinctively. Unlike
animals, human infants, growing up in isolation, produce no
‘instinctive’ language.