Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Language Acquisition Device, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Surface Roughness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Hunters discovered the boy in the forests of aveyron, france. They named him victor and he had been isolated from human contact for 12 years. Upon being found he did not speak any language and made minimal sounds o. After training with a specialist victor could read and write some things but was never fully able to speak properly. Genie- age 13: was isolated in a locked room for all of her life. She could only say 2 words: stopit and nomore. Although her vocabulary increased after being found she could never string together sentences fully: her vocabulary was stalled at the age of a 2 or 3 year old. Locked in a basement where her mom and grandmother would occasionally visit. She made a quick recovery when being found and seemed quite capable of learning language but her foster placement did not work out: unfortunately dominique was eventually institutionalized.