![Peter Farb Quotes: No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations951/No-child-is-capable-of-speech-until-951525.jpg)
No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.
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