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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
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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True.
Language development is very interesting. Our first, inate reaction at birth is crying, and if it is responded to in a positive way, we continue making noises.