Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: July 25

Statue of Victor, St-Sernin
sur-Rance, France
July 25  
1799: Three hunters come across the feral child Victor in a forest in southern France. They capture him, but he later manages to escape. Victor is one of the most well-known cases of a child growing up deprived of language.

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