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From: RLWALD@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Robert Wald)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Why can't my cat talk?
Message-ID: <3767@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 19:48:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 19:48:41 1987
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In article <849@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) writes:
 
>In article <1697@cognos.UUCP> roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley) writes:
>>In article <11967@decwrl.DEC.COM> glantz@yippee.dec.com (26-Oct-1987 2000)
>>>  ...during which basic linguistic ability can be acquired would be limited
>>>  to this ``crystallization'' period...
>It seems that Helen Keller would be a counter-example to the
>"crystallization period" theory, as she was a deaf and blind "feral"
>child but was "educated" LONG after the normally
>hypothesized "crystallization period".  She could have just been an
>exception, but...
 
 
  Helen Keller went deaf and blind after she was one or two years old
and so was exposed to enough stimulus to make it possible for her to
later learn to talk/communicate. Or at least thats how the objection
was answered when it came up in a class sometime.
 
 
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