"exposed to language" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person or other creature being exposed to the communication of spoken words or other linguistic expression in order to learn it. For example, "The group of children were exposed to language from an early age, allowing them to quickly develop their understanding of grammar and vocabulary."
They've never been exposed to language at its most ingenious, have no models to draw on and no mechanism for expressing their interior lives to the outside world, and when people can't articulate how they feel, problems follow.
In the context of theories debating an interwoven organization of speech perception and production, the Motor Theory of Speech Perception (MTSP 3 has argued in favour of a covert articulatory rehearsal mechanism, which would take place implicitly and automatically whenever a speaker is exposed to language, thus connecting the two ends of the perception-production continuum.
For example, language use is part of the nature of a human being, but there are cases of humans who, due to neurological damage or simply failure to be exposed to language prior to the onset of adolescence, fail to develop a capacity for language use.
At present, all three sign systems are still being used in Nicaragua, presumably reflecting the different ages at which people are exposed to language and the kinds of inputs (ISN or LSN vs. signed and written Spanish or lipreading in regular schools) they receive.
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But one thing many scientists agree on is that we're exposed to language while we're still in the womb, which suggests that maybe we are born with some knowledge.
Mehler et al. (1996) hypothesized that infants use rhythm to discriminate languages when they are exposed to languages of different rhythmic classes.
Thus, second or foreign language learners usually have not mastered the basic language structure prior to reading instruction and compared to first language readers they are not continuously exposed to written language in their cultural environment (De Zeeuw et al. 2013; Martin et al. 2013).
The biggest flaw of this approach is, however, that in order to fully develop their language skills the child needs to be exposed to a language for a certain amount of time.
It turned out that the course of language acquisition for children who were exposed to spoken languages and those exposed to sign language occurred on an identical timetable. The sign language babies babbledthey just used their hands to do so.
It was different, she wrote, than the government's interest in restricting vulgar language in radio broadcasts, where children could be inadvertently exposed to offensive language.
