Alisha and Will are back to discuss a step-by-step guide for how to straight-up ruin your children. Kidding (kind of). How does language develop in the brain, and what are the consequences of holding it back? And what happens when you lock two infants away on a remote island with no method of learning how to communicate? Is it something nice!? What do you think!?
Sources:
Books:
Savage Girls and Wild Boys (Michael Newton, 2002)
Articles:
Kaspar Hauser Monument, Ansbach Germany (Atlas Obscura)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kaspar-hauser-monument
Kaspar Hauser, German Youth (Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, Apr 2021)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kaspar-Hauser
The Forbidden Experiment (Rebecca Saxe, The Boston Review, Jul 2006)
https://bostonreview.net/saxe-the-forbidden-experiment
The Famous Savage Boy of France (Christina Dalcher, History of Yesterday, Aug 2020)
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-famous-savage-boy-of-france-a5c03453f0ea
Amala and Kamala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amala_and_Kamala
John, el último niño salvaje del siglo (John the last wild boy of the Century) by Isabel Ferrer 1999
https://elpais.com/diario/1999/10/17/sociedad/940111201_850215.html
Feral children by Michelle Jarman
https://www.britannica.com/topic/feral-children
Feral: The children raised by wolves - Photography by Julia Fullerton-Batten
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20151012-feral-the-children-raised-by-wolves
How language shapes the way we think by Lera Boroditsky
Breastfeeding Animals and Other Wild “Nurses” in Greek and Roman Mythology by Giulia Pedrucci
Peter the Wild Boy's condition revealed 200 years after his death by Maev Kennedy
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/20/peter-wild-boy-condition-revealed
Who was Peter the Wild Boy? by Megan Lane
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14215171
Wild stories: why do we find feral children so fascinating? By Marie-Ann Ochota
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/22/feral-child-monkey-girl-jungle-stories-monsters
Starved, tortured, forgotten: Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers by Rory Carroll
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/14/genie-feral-child-los-angeles-researchers
The Girl in the Window by Lane Degregory
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/danielle/
The Girl, 10 Years Later by Lane Degregory
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/neglect-feral-child-ten-years-later/
The Forbidden Experiment by Chris Berube
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/293679-forbidden-experiment
How Language Shapes the Brain by Sayuri Hayakawa,
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-language-shapes-the-brain/
Linguistically deprived children: meta-analysis of published research underlines
the importance of early syntactic language use for normal brain development by Andrey Vyshedskiy, Shreyas Mahapatra, Rita Dunn
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/07/21/166538.full.pdf
The King of Scotland’s Peculiar Language Experiment (Paul Anthony Jones, Mental Floss, Feb 2016)
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75378/king-scotlands-peculiar-language-experiment
Videos:
Patrick Speaks by Channel 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfC6jqBhkk
The Most Mysterious Boy in History, Random Thursday (Joe Scott, Sep 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiiCvdnoPGc&ab_channel=JoeScott
Audio:
Episode 11: Feral Children (Hyper Focus, Apr 2021)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4eEnzgamq85X2OSaxmrDG9?si=1Q2Ad31LQDOeWTv3iYDmAw
Are Feral Children Real? (Stuff You Should Know, Feb 2018)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XZAclPk4hSJwCWqGHq5wR?si=BtIxtC1OTRCTcde__zrY4Q
Feral Children and the True Story Behind the Jungle Book (Ridiculous Histories, Nov 2018)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SAlReECHSSvoaNXpdwDuE?si=SifcRJ27TR29hJ1cIdVa-g
The Unlanguaged Mind: A World Built With Words (Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Sep 2015)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6KbVX7ZGkRK5tBJJK15kCD?si=TNC_6oNrR5GoNv-KD5Iyzw
