Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day “Wild Child
reports on the linguistic research carried out through studying and
working with Genie, a deprived and isolated, to an unprecedented
degree, girl who was not discovered until she was an adolescent. An
inhuman childhood had prevented Genie from learning language, and she
knew little about the world in any respect save abuse, neglect,
isolation, and deprivation. This book is organized into three parts
encompassing 11 chapters. Part I provides a case history and
background material on Genie's personality and language behavior. This
part describes the interaction between the authors and this remarkable
girl. Part II details Genie's linguistic development and overall
language abilities, specifically her phonological development, as well
as receptive knowledge and productive grammatical abilities of syntax,
morphology, and semantics. This part also provides a comparison
between her linguistic development and the language acquisition of
other children. Part III presents a full description of the
neurolinguistic work carried out on Genie and discusses the
implications of this aspect of the case. This book will prove useful
to neurolinguistics and pyscholinguistics.
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ISBN
9781483217611
Publisert
2016
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Academic Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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