It was the first time I had ever heard of a savant with a linguistic ability.

"Of course, and everyone with any linguistic ability is trying to analyze their language."

He says his lack of linguistic ability hasn't gotten in his way.

Thus young children have both the cognitive and the linguistic ability to explain actions in terms of intentions.

However, these difficulties are not attributed to their linguistic abilities.

What use would such fantastic linguistic abilities be among the general population?

The author's linguistic and scholarly abilities are open to question.

Come on, we're going to put your awesome linguistic abilities to work.

Later, this linguistic ability and knowledge was to prove invaluable.

Through the process of natural selection humans acquired linguistic abilities.