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Psycholinguistics Outline
Psycholinguistics Outline
Chapter 4: Wild and isolated children and the critical age issue for language learning
Victor: the wild boy of Aveyron
Genie: raised in isolation
Isabelle: confinement with a mute mother
Chelsea: began to learn language at age 32
Helen Keller: the renowned deaf and blind girl
Oxana and Edik: raised by dogs
A critical age for first-language learning?
Conclusion
Part II
Second-language learning
Group 10
Part III
Language, Mind and Brain
Group 9