Recognizing things is exactly the issue. You need language to do that. You'd need to know red from pink or blue or green. You'd need to know that there is a 'person.' You'd need to know what being 'pissed off' is. You make cutting up the world using language a prerequisite to learning language.

You're talking like a person who is stuck in their language. What if you weren't stuck in your language because you didn't have a language yet, Tyrone?