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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:-):
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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.
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