I love my toy. I love this food. I love these shoes. With no adult to ever hold, treasure, and respond to her needs, she never had love and never learned the meaning in the word love. And in this is a lesson for us all.
Language is born in relationships.
This learning process requires that language be derived from social-emotional communication. The face, not the voice, is the major organ of human communication. Words have become our shortcuts. Only a fraction of our total brain is dedicated to verbal communication. Even as one area of the brain is processing and attending to the words in an interaction, more areas are continually focusing on, and responding to, the nonverbal actions that accompany the words.