Possibly, but here's a data point in the opposite direction: Learning mathematics, especially higher forms of mathematics. Before students can learn directly f

Possibly, but here's a data point in the opposite direction: Learning mathematics, especially higher forms of mathematics. Before students can learn directly from symbolic representations like formulae, mathematics teachers must communicate mathematical ideas to them using natural language -- and with just a few iterations of correcting misunderstandings, this process somehow converges on the students having the same understanding of these abstract ideas. That is, natural language succeeds here in bootstrapping a more precise form of communication.