“Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful advancement has mainly depended” –
                                                                                    Charles Darwin
  
"With the … emergence (at around 18 months) of language… the child becomes a different being” –
                                                                                    Barbara Fajardo, Ph.D.
 
“Language… makes parts of our known experience more shareable with others…
But in fact language is a double-edged sword…
It drives a wedge between two simultaneous forms of interpersonal experience:
as it is lived and as it is verbally represented” –
                                                                                    Daniel Stern, M.D.