<html><div>Hi Jean and All, </div>
<br>
<div>John Bonvillian, Amanda Garber, & Susan Dell have an article in
_First Language_, </div>
<div>_17_ (1997), 219-239 entitled "Language origin accounts: was
the gesure in the </div>
<div>beginning" that describes such experiments by Akbar, the
emperor of Hindustan, </div>
<div>in the 16th century. He, too, wanted to know what might be the
natural language of </div>
<div>children who had not been taught another. He had heard that the
language would </div>
<div>be Hebrew. The 12 children were raised by 12 mute nurses.
Surprise=surprise, they </div>
<div>gestured but did not speak some 12 years later.</div>
<br>
<div>John told me he had another (similar?) publication on the topic.
</div>
<br>
<div>Regards, </div>
<br>
<div>Pat Zukow-Goldring
</div>
<br>
Patricia Zukow-Goldring, Ph. D.<br>
Center for the Study of Women, Kinsey
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