Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky explores the question of what happens when a child is deprived of exposure to language. If such deprivation is part of a larger problem, such as lack of contact with others, the non-acquisition ...
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...