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The Critical Period Hypothesis supported by Genie's case (Paperback)
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Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University
of Bochum, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English,
abstract: In 1967 Eric Heinz Lenneberg established his
groundbreaking work "Biological Foundations of Language" in which
he tries to push the biological view on language forward. One
important point that is discussed is "language in the context of
growth and maturation." The Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) is the
essence of this considerations. Lenneberg tries to find evidence
for his theory in the study of retarded, aphasic or deaf children
and in neurological studies. But at this time the most striking
proof for the CPH, Genie, was still imprisoned in a small room in
her parents home. Three years after Lenneberg published his work on
the CPH, 131/2 years-old Genie was recovered by an eligibility
worker and her case rapidly aroused the interest of neurologists,
psychologists and linguists. Susan Curtiss, a graduate student of
the UCLA Linguistic Department got the possibility to work with
Genie for the years to come. Her work Genie - A Psycholinguistic
Study of a Modern-Day Wild Child compiles her experiences on
working with Genie added by a detailed case history. What Susan
Curtiss found out about Genie s linguistic development seems to be
the evidence for the existence of a critical phase for first
language acquisition. This paper gives a brief definition of
Lenneberg s Critical Period Hypothesis, summarizes the case history
and the data of Genie s linguistic development and, according to
Susan Curtiss, relates Genie s case directly to the CPH. Over and
above that, it tries to explain, why Genie developed a certain
amount of language and with this proved the strong version of
Lenneberg s hypothesis as wron
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