Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 7, 1999, 6:33 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Eventually, all children involved in this experiment died of lack of
> communication (in fact, they stopped eating and let themselves die).
It probably is a ledgend, then, because a great many people have lived
deprived of communication, especially deaf children growing up without
any form of sign language, but there have also been cases where children
were deliberately deprived of communication by abusive parents, they've
survived, altho scarred by the psychological abuse.
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