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[h] [5] [142] Curtiss theorized this inability was because Genie had no deixis or linguistic movement in her speech, and in 1975 the scientists speculated emotional difficulties may have made her unwilling to attempt them in spontaneous speech. Curtiss attributed Genie's failure to memorize them to being generally unable to remember sentences ...
Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...
Antony, a mentally retarded 6 year old, was able to produce syntactically well-formed sentences, but they were semantically incorrect. His speech contained the very features that Genie’s speech lacked, further demonstrating the modularity of syntax and semantics as well as showing that there isn’t an innate preference towards one or the other.
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Genie, 13 years of age upon discovery, was malnourished, insensitive to tactile senses, [clarification needed] and silent even upon being evoked; [clarification needed] however she had proper social skills and she was able to maintain eye contact with caregivers, giving the impression that she understood instruction.
Richard Curtis made his name investing romantic comedy with a surprise spark of humanity (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Notting Hill”), but “Genie” really is a glorified sitcom ...
Genie, in which Essiedu takes up the Richard-Curtis-leading-man-mantle from Grant and Colin Firth, is a lively remake of Curtis’s 1991 Christmas movie Bernard and the Genie. That film starred ...
Mockingbird Don't Sing is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child. [1] The film is told from the point of view of Susan Curtiss (whose fictitious name is Sandra Tannen), a professor of linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles. Although the film is based on a true story, all of the ...