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From: poser@russell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Degenerate Lang Learning Experiment
Message-ID: <725@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 16:20:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 16:20:49 1987
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Reply-To: poser@russell.UUCP (Bill Poser)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Keywords: language acquisition
Summary: Putative default language was Phrygian

In the Egyptian experiment reported by Herodotus, the word reportedly
uttered by the children raised without linguistic input was "bekos",
which the Egyptians determined to be the Phrygian word for "bread".
It is in fact true that this was the Phrygian word for "bread".