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Susan Curtiss is an American linguist. She is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles. [1] Curtiss's main fields of research are psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. [2] Her 1976 UCLA PhD dissertation [3] centered on the study of the grammatical development of Genie, a famous feral child. [4]
Genie (feral child) 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.
Linguistic development of Genie. When the circumstances of Genie, the primary victim in one of the most severe cases of abuse, neglect and social isolation on record in medical literature, first became known in early November 1970, authorities arranged for her admission to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where doctors determined that at the ...
Sagon Penn (1962 – July 4 2002) was a martial arts expert [1] and community leader from Southeast San Diego who worked as a karate teacher and also mentored inner-city children in the early 1980s. [2] Penn was subsequently acquitted for the 1985 controversial shooting death of a San Diego police officer, the attempted murder of another ...
This is "The Cats' House" in San Diego made world famous -- some would say notorious -- via video as a paragon of feline-friendly design. The 1,300-square-foot home, most of which is included in ...
August 6, 1942. (1942-08-06) (aged 10) Burial place. Delaware Cemetery. 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 ...
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 term is used to refer to children who have suffered severe abuse or ...
For An Angel ( talk) 21:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC) As you can plainly see, a Google search for Genie feral child yields 7600 hits. While a Google search yields 6880 hits. Obviously this surname associated with Genie is widely known and disseminated.