Why can some people speak dozens of languages? with Ev Fedorenko, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Deafness and the Importance of Language
Was it necessary for language to be there early on to get some of these capacities to develop? It's much harder to ask that question, because you can deprive kids of language. There are cases where deaf kids are born to hearing parents and their parents don't know sign language. But a, from the anecdotal evidence and some sparse experimental evidence that exists, it seems that, again, most things you can learn without language.
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