Wiki+Project

Hey yall. This is where we can put down what we are thinking for our Wiki project on Man Without Words.

There are so many different topics that we can link this book/concept to. We can easily make note of Genie, as we talked about before as well as the actual phenomenon of language acquisition. I will think of some more topics to include! See you tonight. ---Sami

Also, does TESC library or any of our members have a copy of this book by any chance? Though this project is the first time I've heard about the book, I've managed to find summaries about //A Man Without Words//, but it would be nice to use the actual source as a means to supply the necessary information in addition to related topics. -Morgan

**I found quite a few articles that will be helpful if anyone is having trouble finding places to start:** http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/21/life-without-language/ **Tidbits from Susan's book, as well as an interview.**

http://www.radiolab.org/people/susan-schaller/ --**2 listening resources. 1st one is "Words that change the world," with Susan Schaller (I think the one mentioned in class) and the 2nd is "Words." The description is "A woman teaches a 27-year-old the first words of his life, and a neurologist suffers a stroke that wipes out the language center of her brain."**

http://www.yale.edu/cogdevlab/aarticles/bloom%20and%20keil.pdf


 * Then I figured these could be additional discussions our wiki article can link to: **

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SapirWhorfHypothesis **Sapir Whorf Hypothesis discusses the link between language and thought.** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SapirWhorfHypothesis ---**Same as above but on Wikipedia site.** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis **Found this one very interesting. It suggests that when taught, per-pubescent feral children will more likely establish a typical communication language and learn it quicker, unlike Genie who was past that critical period and post- puberty. Might be worth linking the man without words to that paragraph, as he is a case that learned way after puberty. ---Laura**

So I've read the book by Schaller and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I should contribute to the page. There are references to a linguist named Ursula Bellugi, who does not have a wikipedia page but has link to an outside cite about her in Laura-Ann Pettito's article. There are also references to some authors in the communications field in the book, these authors have wikipedia articles already but some links might be appropriate... ? I'm just so intimidated by all of this, I'm really not sure how to proceed. but I''m sifting through the book again looking for other points of relevance. More to come... ---Alicia

Also, this book has a strong focus on language acquisition specifically in Deaf culture, and while distinctions have been drawn between Ildefonso and //child// cases of late language acquisition, it might also be important to note the distinction of Deaf versus hearing language acquisition in this case. Schaller points out that her hearing mind was actually a handicap in teaching Ildefonso language, and that a deaf friend of hers was able to interact with Ildefonso much more effectively in the beginning stages of his learning. So there are some possible links to Deaf culture pages as well... ---Alicia