Victor of Aveyron: A Reappraisal in Light of More Recent Cases of Feral Speech
The language development of children who have experienced malnutrition and varying degrees of speech and sensory deprivation is examined. In language learning, such children attend only when directly addressed, cannot control pitch and intonation and lack an understanding of the relational linguistic material and the sociolinguistic rules of conversation. (PMJ)
Article, 1980