Research Paper on:
Feral Children and Language Acquisition Mysteries

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Ancient tales tell the world that the mythical founders of Rome, or the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, were suckled by a she-wolf (Carter-Long PG). The legend of Sir  Gowther also denotes that a hateful child who tore his mothers nipple, paid the price for his feral nature and fed only from the mouths of dogs; he remained mute  for the rest of his years (PG). These stories may be just legends, but there are documented cases where children were either abandoned, or by some unfortunate accident, left in  the wild to fend for themselves. There are other stories of abuse where children had only minimal contact with human beings. All of these cases collectively provide scientists with much  information about human development and are of particular interest to linguists. How such children learn to speak or read much later in life reveal a slew of information for those  who study the ways in which human beings generally learn. In any era, there is always the possibility of a survivor, a child who was taken from his mother  early on and lived to tell about it. Yet, children who survived-- sometimes with the help of animals-- do not understand language as one who had learned English in the  context of ordinary life. However, some of these children seem to make remarkable progress once exposed to the civilized world. In any event, the stories are interesting and provide information  about language. Language is thought to be learned through exposure. Infants and toddlers begin to understand language early on. Their first words may be primitive--ma, dada, baba--but they quickly progress  to whole words and then sentences. By the time they are into early childhood they have embraced language and are able to converse with their parents and older siblings. Children