Carsen Bartlett

Social Studies

3 July, 09:16

The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II was interested in determining what language babies would learn to speak spontaneously if no one influenced them. He instructed caregivers not to speak to neonates in orphanages so that it could be determined which language was the "natural" language. What was the result of his experiment? a. German was the spontaneous language.

b. All of the infants died.

c. The infants grew up to speak combination of all languages, which was reported to be gibberish.

d. No language emerged, just hand gestures.