Language deprivation experiments
/pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test4materials/childlangacquisition.htm |archive-date =2017-07-20 |url-status =dead }}</ref> The children were reported to have spoken good Hebrew, but historians were sceptical of these claims soon after they were made.[1][2]
Mughal emperor Akbar was later said to have children raised by mute wetnurses. Akbar held that speech arose from hearing; thus children raised without hearing human speech would become mute.[3]
Some authors have doubted whether or how exactly the experiments of Psamtik I and James IV actually took place;[4] and probably the same goes for that of Frederick II.[5] Akbar's study is most likely authentic, but offers an ambiguous outcome.[4]
In fiction
- The "forbidden experiment" occurs in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.
- In The Twilight Zone episode "Mute" (1963), several children are raised in such a manner to foster telepathic communication.
- In the Batgirl comic series, the title character, Cassandra Cain, is deprived of spoken language during childhood. This was part of an attempt to create a martial artist with an exceptional ability to interpret body language, as it was believed that this would give one a great advan*In Andrea Moro's first novel Il di Pietramala[6] where an entire village in Corsica undergoes the forbidden experiment. The novel won the Flaiano Prizes.
See also
- Adamic language
- Critical period hypothesis
- Feral child
- Language deprivation
- Language deprivation in children with hearing loss
References
- ^ Dalyell, John Graham, ed., The Chronicles of Scotland by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, vol. 1, Edinburgh (1814) pp. 249-250.
- ^ Davidson, J.P. (2011). Planet word. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 9780141968933. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ M. Miles, SIGN, GESTURE & DEAFNESS IN SOUTH ASIAN & SOUTH-WEST ASIAN HISTORIES: a bibliography with annotation and excerpts from India; also from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia/Iran, & Sri Lanka, c1200-1750 Archived 2008-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Robin N Campbell & Robert Grieve (12/1981). Royal Investigations of the Origin of Language. Historiographia Linguistica 9(1-2):43-74 DOI: 10.1075/hl.9.1-2.04cam
- ^ Wi.Pö. (2000). Waisenkinderversuche (= Orphan Experiments). Lexikon der Psychologie (= Encyclopedia of Psychology). Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg.
- ^ Il segreto di Pietramala, La Nave di Teseo, Milano 2018; engl. transl. forthcoming