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In article <1992Jul21.184221.375@discus.technion.ac.il>,
davidba@carmel.technion.ac.il (David Ben_Ami) says:
>
>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:-):
>--------------------------------------------------
>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.

Sorry that I was not being clear, but my point in including the story
was not that I thought it was true (I knew it wasn't), my point
was to show that the idea of children being raised in a language
free environment was not new. I was happy however that you knew
the source of this story; my mind is like a sieve.

                                        shalom,

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