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FeralChildren.com | Genie, a modern-day Wild Child |
 | | Genie (not Jeanie, Geanie, Jeannie or Geannie and, in any case, not her real name) is a modern-day "wild child" who, until discovery at the age of 13, had lived in a state of severe sensory and social deprivation. |
 | | The case of Genie, and the difficulties she faced in learning to speak, are widely quote as evidence for the critical period hypothesis. |
 | | Genie's vocabulary grew by leaps and bounds, but she was still not able to string words together into meaningful sentences. |
| www.feralchildren.com /en/showchild.php?ch=genie (2895 words) |
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