If there is a language bioprogram, then children are programmed with a set of basic distinctions which they expect that their native tongue will implement somehow. It is less clear whether, or to what extent, they are specifically programmed with the means to realize these distinctions should their native tongue fail to meet their expectations (as in the case, most drastically, if they are born into a pidgin-speaking community).
- Bickerton (1981), a pag.199