Re: Do children learn language more easily?

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:16:03 -0500, Nathan Sanders
<nsanders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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sci.lang:

[...]

There are cases of so-called `feral children' who have had
no known linguistic input during the first five years or
so of their lives, and they were unable to learn
language in a way resembling human usage.

Do you know of any who weren't also grossly mistreated?

[...]

Brian
.

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