Language Acquisition : Although the boy was able to develop a means of communicating, he never developed the ability to use language? What is the evidence for this?

Language Acquisition .

In this portion consider nativist vs. empircist theories and how they relate to language development.

Watch a video of The Wild Boy of Averyon, which is one of several special cases where a child was raised “in the wild” basically abandoned and left without any human intereaction for the first many years of his life.

•Therefore, he was not exposed to language during what can be considered a “critical period” of development of this cognitive domain. Why would we call this a critcal period versus a senitive period?

•Although the boy was able to develop a means of communicating, he never developed the ability to use language? What is the evidence for this?