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Revisiting the case for ‘feral’ humans under the light of the human self-domestication hypothesis: focusing on language

2021-07-04

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<p>Contemporary descriptions of ‘feral’ children generally preclude any insightful inference about the language deficits exhibited by these children, as well as the ultimate causes of their problems with language. However, they have been regularly used to support the view that language acquisition requires a proper social environment in order to occur. In this paper, we revisit the case for ‘feral’ children with t...

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Literature Corpus work: 3c3b7251-b9c4-57a7-b9bb-e1c8b9b37f5e
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wh9qe

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