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Originally Posted by Baron1710
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/000078.html
Late in the 16th century, the Mogul emperor Akbar the Great tested his hypothesis that babies raised without hearing speech would be unable to speak. He had twelve infants raised by mute nurses in a house where no speech could be heard. Several years later, he went to the house and found that none of the children spoke. Instead, they conversed only in signs. Akbar's hypothesis seemed to be supported: no oral input, no oral language language learning.
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I would wonder if the children's experience being that which demonstrated to them that humans do not speak influenced the outcome?
They were not given an example of human speech but they were given a consistent example of human's being mute. This might have influenced them to communicate without speech.
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