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Re:A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest by gfody on Friday April 07, 2017 @09:23PM (#14064715)
in New Horizons Chomsky writes a bit about cases like this. IIRC a person raised like this has never been reintegrated and per Chomsky it's not really possible because the person will have developed a kind of consciousness that is fundamentally different from what we consider a 'normal' consciousness. Here's a video of him talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-30ZCHk1Ydk
Re:A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest by Tagore on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:13PM (#14065089)
I think it's pretty clear at this point that citing Chomsky in cases like this is like citing Velikovsky when discussing celestial mechanics. Wrong and inapposite.
Re:A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest by gfody on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:49PM (#14065191)
you're probably right - somebody start teaching this girl english, she'll be fine! what's the father of cognitive science and modern linguistics know about anything?
Re:A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest by qb45 on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:57AM (#14066047)
> what's the father of cognitive science and modern linguistics know about anything?

If he hasn't observed at least a dozen such children trying to learn language for a dozen years then he doesn't even know what are the things he doesn't know.

And guess what, I watched your video and even Chomsky admits that he only heard about few cases of feral children of which the one he talked about in detail means little because the girl was severely mistreated by parents in addition to growing up in isolation. And then he talked some more about other people inventing their own languages, but not living in complete social isolation.

Re:A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest by Tagore on Saturday April 08, 2017 @12:08AM (#14065256)
Who's 'she'? Anyway, I think you ought to rethink your claim that Chomsky is the father of cognitive science and of modern linguistics.
Re:A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest by x0137294744532 on Saturday April 08, 2017 @02:19AM (#14065606)
> Who's 'she'?

The feral girl.

> Anyway, I think you ought to rethink your claim that Chomsky is the father of cognitive science and of modern linguistics.

He is one of the founders of cognitive science, and a major contributor to linguistics.

So his claim is factually true.