[weef]

and what words would you use to access the memory in your brain, seeing as how you didn’t have any language at that point?

So we can't recall memories before we learned our language? We need words to access the memories in our brains? I wouldn't think this was true but maybe I'm reading this too literal. If someone was raised by wolves until they were 20 years old but then were able to learn a language, they would have no memories of the wolves? Maybe we don't have young age memories because we can't comprehend what we've just experienced. This may be the language angle. It's all very fascinating...

[TomOnTheRun]

People construct private language in the absence of communication with other human beings. So your boy raised by wolves would still be able to form organized concepts and ideas and refer back to them in an organized fashion without being able to communicate them in a way others understood until he learned a common language. Language is used in communicating with the self all the time even if you think you aren’t using words.