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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!psuvax1!psuvm!grv101
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:18:40 EDT
- From: Callec Dradja <GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92203.171840GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: What lies deep within us?
- References: <92198.174113GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu>
- <1992Jul21.050802.13225@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- <1992Jul21.184221.375@discus.technion.ac.il>
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- In article <1992Jul21.184221.375@discus.technion.ac.il>,
- davidba@carmel.technion.ac.il (David Ben_Ami) says:
- >
- >In article <92198.174113GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu>, Callec Dradja <GRV101@psuvm
- >writes:
- >>My question is, what would happen if you were to raise children in an
- >>environment without language? I ran into a similar idea once before. It turns
- >>out that there is an old story about two children who were raised, as an
- >>experiment, by a deaf woman. The children had no exposure to any type of
- >>language whatsoever. At the end of some appropriate period of time, the
- >>children were checked on and lo and behold, they spoke fluent Hebrew. The
- >idea
- >>here, of course, was that Hebrew was the 'unBableized' mode of human speech.
- >Here's my 2 Agorot(Israeli equivalent to cents:-):
- >--------------------------------------------------
- >This experiment was done by King James II of Scotland. my version says
- >that the chilfren were raised by a deaf-mute shepard(sp?) and indeed
- >the legend is that they spoke Hebrew. I think that is a baloney and
- >couldn't be trusted because it's obviously a religious story with
- >clear promotional motives. However the story is interesting and is
- >similar to what would have been called "urban legend" today. maybe
- >"feudal legend"? :-)
- >
- >Shalom from Israel,
- >
- > David Ben-Ami.
-
- Sorry that I was not being clear, but my point in including the story
- was not that I thought it was true (I knew it wasn't), my point
- was to show that the idea of children being raised in a language
- free environment was not new. I was happy however that you knew
- the source of this story; my mind is like a sieve.
-
- shalom,
-
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