F is for Feral Children Part II

Alisha and Will are back to discuss a step-by-step guide for how to straight-up ruin your children. Kidding (kind of). How does language develop in the brain, and what are the consequences of holding it back? And what happens when you lock two infants away on a remote island with no method of learning how to communicate? Is it something nice!? What do you think!?

 

Sources:

Books: 

Savage Girls and Wild Boys (Michael Newton, 2002)

 

Articles:

Kaspar Hauser Monument, Ansbach Germany (Atlas Obscura)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kaspar-hauser-monument

 

Kaspar Hauser, German Youth (Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, Apr 2021)

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kaspar-Hauser

 

The Forbidden Experiment (Rebecca Saxe, The Boston Review, Jul 2006)

https://bostonreview.net/saxe-the-forbidden-experiment

 

The Famous Savage Boy of France (Christina Dalcher, History of Yesterday, Aug 2020)

https://historyofyesterday.com/the-famous-savage-boy-of-france-a5c03453f0ea

 

Amala and Kamala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amala_and_Kamala

 

John, el último niño salvaje del siglo (John the last wild boy of the Century) by Isabel Ferrer 1999

https://elpais.com/diario/1999/10/17/sociedad/940111201_850215.html

 

Feral children by Michelle Jarman

https://www.britannica.com/topic/feral-children

 

Feral: The children raised by wolves - Photography by Julia Fullerton-Batten

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20151012-feral-the-children-raised-by-wolves

 

How language shapes the way we think by Lera Boroditsky

https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/13/

 

Breastfeeding Animals and Other Wild “Nurses” in Greek and Roman Mythology by Giulia Pedrucci

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311690563_Animales_amamantando_y_otras_nodrizas_salvajes_en_la_mitologia_griega_y_romana/fulltext/587dc88608ae9a860ff1dc3d/Animales-amamantando-y-otras-nodrizas-salvajes-en-la-mitologia-griega-y-romana.pdf

 

Peter the Wild Boy's condition revealed 200 years after his death by Maev Kennedy

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/20/peter-wild-boy-condition-revealed

 

Who was Peter the Wild Boy? by Megan Lane

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14215171

 

Wild stories: why do we find feral children so fascinating? By Marie-Ann Ochota 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/22/feral-child-monkey-girl-jungle-stories-monsters

 

Starved, tortured, forgotten: Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers by Rory Carroll

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/14/genie-feral-child-los-angeles-researchers

 

The Girl in the Window by Lane Degregory

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/danielle/

 

The Girl, 10 Years Later by Lane Degregory

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/neglect-feral-child-ten-years-later/

 

The Forbidden Experiment by Chris Berube

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/293679-forbidden-experiment

 

How Language Shapes the Brain by Sayuri Hayakawa,

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-language-shapes-the-brain/

 

Linguistically deprived children: meta-analysis of published research underlines

the importance of early syntactic language use for normal brain development by Andrey Vyshedskiy, Shreyas Mahapatra, Rita Dunn

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/07/21/166538.full.pdf

 

The King of Scotland’s Peculiar Language Experiment (Paul Anthony Jones, Mental Floss, Feb 2016)

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75378/king-scotlands-peculiar-language-experiment

Videos:

 

Patrick Speaks by Channel 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfC6jqBhkk

 

The Most Mysterious Boy in History, Random Thursday (Joe Scott, Sep 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiiCvdnoPGc&ab_channel=JoeScott

 

Audio:

 

Episode 11: Feral Children (Hyper Focus, Apr 2021)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4eEnzgamq85X2OSaxmrDG9?si=1Q2Ad31LQDOeWTv3iYDmAw

 

Are Feral Children Real? (Stuff You Should Know, Feb 2018)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XZAclPk4hSJwCWqGHq5wR?si=BtIxtC1OTRCTcde__zrY4Q

 

Feral Children and the True Story Behind the Jungle Book (Ridiculous Histories, Nov 2018)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SAlReECHSSvoaNXpdwDuE?si=SifcRJ27TR29hJ1cIdVa-g

 

The Unlanguaged Mind: A World Built With Words (Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Sep 2015)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6KbVX7ZGkRK5tBJJK15kCD?si=TNC_6oNrR5GoNv-KD5Iyzw