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Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. [1] [2] [3] When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room. During this ...
A feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization . [ 1 ]
The Salk Institute, where researchers analyzed the data from the first of several brain exams on Genie. Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of a feral child who was the victim of extraordinarily severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. Her circumstances are recorded prominently in the annals of abnormal child psychology.
'Stopit!' She Said. 'Nomore!', NATALIE ANGIER, New York Times, April 25, 1993 'Genie': how a child was cheated out of a life The Boston Globe, 4/27/1993, Richard Higgins; DAUGHTER OF THE DOG PACK ; Left by drunken parents, this girl crawled into a kennel - and was suckled and raised by dogs. Her amazing story, Daily Mail, 15 December 2003 ...
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Alice Marie Harris (March 6, 1932 – August 6, 1942), known under the pseudonym Anna, was a feral child from Pennsylvania who was raised in isolation. She was abused for being an illegitimate child. From the age of five months to six years, she was kept strapped down in the attic of her home, malnourished and unable to speak or move.
Genie's is one of the best-known cases of language acquisition in a child with delayed linguistic development. [7] [9] [107] Curtiss argued that Genie's case supported Chomsky's hypothesis of innate language, but that Genie demonstrated the necessity of early language stimulation in the left hemisphere of the brain to start.
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 ...