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english language ocr a level
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| feral child | lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, have little/no experience of human care, no loving or social behaviour, no element of human language |
| Genie | found at 13 after being isolated and harnessed to a potty seat for 12.5 years mental age of 18 months couldn't speak/walk- just whimpered and used facial expressions desired to learn and highly intelligent, high vocab never spoke accurately |
| why did genie not speak | brain missed a critical period which meant are connection which allowed her to learn the rules of grammar was severed |
| Oxana Malaya | lived with dogs from the age of 3 and was found 5 years later on all fours and barking like a dog learned to speak well but has no rhythm or cadence |
| Jim | Both parents were deaf and didn't use sign language with him so his only exposure to language was through tv flat intonation, poor articulation understood plurality but not the '-s' marker which shows it created his own syntactic rules |
| example of Jim's own syntactic rules | 'going house fire truck' |
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