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25 percent of parents reported spanking their children frequently, with different reasons ( most common one is to enforce discipline to their children when they do something wrong ).
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There are many, but the major ones are that
1) language is somehow saved in our genes, which means that people with better communication skills had a survival advantage over those that didn't and that language is innate. This usually means that the specific parts of language: syntax for example are innate too
2) language was "invented" like writing: and then it was transmitted and changed.