https://youtu.be/UiINpPTrtzE?t=703
Notice that the “primordial blessing of abstraction” is very different from Noah D. Goodman ‘s Bayesian “blessing of abstraction”. His idea is that even when learning purely from experiences, it’s possible to learn abstract ideas earlier, which will guide the subsequent learning of details. The reason that we can learn fast is that we learn abstract things first, and it’s possible because much more data (higher frequency) can be used to learn an abstract thing than to learn a very specific thing.
Some says: “Language learning is not a bug but a feature of language and a source of its cognitive power. By learning a natural language, children may overcome the constraints on attention that limit the productive combination of representations from distinct systems of core knowledge. Language learning reverses the curse of a compositional mind.”