FeralChildren.com sagt "This work reports on the linguistic research carried out through studying and working with Genie. Through in-depth psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research, I have attempted to explore just what this case can tell us about some of the questions of interest for linguists and psycholinguists: Is there a critical period for language development? If so, what kind of language development is possible beyond the critical period?" Dr Curtiss.