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Emergence of Language, The
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky talks about the emergence of language, which he calls "a species specific property...an identifying property of human beings." Dr. Chomsky postulates that language emerged as recently as fifty o...
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Thinking and Language: Story of Genie, a Child Without Language, The
Genie was in her early teens when she escaped a life of captivity caged in a room without language, clothing, or human companionship by a father who considered her subhuman. Susan Curtiss, then a graduate student at UCLA, became part of a grant-supp...