21. Hughes, V . H . A study of the relationship among selected language abilities . 22. It is entirely consistent with natural selection that humans would possess a language ability , 23. _Early testing of English language ability and civics knowledge to weed out ineligible applicants. 24. With such a brief visit, how can they fully understand the teachers'and students'language abilities ? 25. To date there has been an average improvement in measured language ability of 25 %. 26. My sense is that language ability has dropped a lot in the last 10 years, 27. During the sensorimotor stage an infant is typically developing object permanence and early language abilities . 28. Interestingly, other work by Peretz suggests that tune-deafness does not seem to impair language ability . 29. Lack of English language ability is a key factor. 30. Hence, there must be some other innate mechanism that endows a language ability to humans.