It's nearly impossible to draw any conclusions from these isolated, uncontrolled single discoveries of feral children. At least a few modern experts believe Vic

It's nearly impossible to draw any conclusions from these isolated, uncontrolled single discoveries of feral children. At least a few modern experts believe Victor probably could have learned sign language, but Itard only tried to teach him speech. It's hard to believe a human of normal cognitive ability can't do at least as well as a gorilla, but two hundred years ago, no one knew it was possible to teach a gorilla sign language. Speech may be far more difficult to pick up later in life than other forms of language because of the complexity of the vocal motor patterns involved. Many also speculate Victor could have been autistic or frankly just severely traumatized from being abandoned and left in the wild as a child. Trying to reason from this one case study to find implications for the role played in language acquisition by all humans, or potentially all computational systems whether artificial or organic, seems like a tall task.