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This 12 page paper provides many case studies of feral children and children who have been raised with minimal human intervention. Language acquisition is studied and other psychological aspects of being separated from human society are discussed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Ancient tales tell the world that the mythical founders of Rome, or the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, were suckled by a she-wolf (Carter-Long PG). The legend of Sir
Gowther also denotes that a hateful child who tore his mothers nipple, paid the price for his feral nature and fed only from the mouths of dogs; he remained mute
for the rest of his years (PG). These stories may be just legends, but there are documented cases where children were either abandoned, or by some unfortunate accident, left in
the wild to fend for themselves. There are other stories of abuse where children had only minimal contact with human beings. All of these cases collectively provide scientists with much
information about human development and are of particular interest to linguists. How such children learn to speak or read much later in life reveal a slew of information for those
who study the ways in which human beings generally learn. In any era, there is always the possibility of a survivor, a child who was taken from his mother
early on and lived to tell about it. Yet, children who survived-- sometimes with the help of animals-- do not understand language as one who had learned English in the
context of ordinary life. However, some of these children seem to make remarkable progress once exposed to the civilized world. In any event, the stories are interesting and provide information
about language. Language is thought to be learned through exposure. Infants and toddlers begin to understand language early on. Their first words may be primitive--ma, dada, baba--but they quickly progress
to whole words and then sentences. By the time they are into early childhood they have embraced language and are able to converse with their parents and older siblings. Children
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