[tied] Re: This week's Le Monde

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

> > I myself think that ... isolating somenewborn children in a lab

and seeing

> > if they learn to speak, and how. Of course, wet-nurses would come

in,

> > but silence would needs be maintained from any outside influence.
> > Even if the children never spoke, the simple motions of reference
> > would begin to emerge.
>
> It's been done. I think it was Frederick the Great.

Wolf-raised children in India and Gascoigne and Kaspar Hause have
shown that human language communication cannot be achieved after a
certain age.

Lars