At the Children's Hospital of San Diego, in California, speech therapists Ann Koeneke and Alexa Kratze quickly discovered that Virginia and Grace, far from being mentally impaired, had at least normal intelligence and had invented a complex idioglossia.
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"Nell, " a drama starring Ms . Foster as a woman who lives in a forest in the South and does not speak English, was based on Mark Handley's play, " Idioglossia, " which was produced in Los Angeles in 1989.
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Right choice No . 1 was in picking her source material : Mark Handley's intriguing drama " Idioglossia, " about an Appalachian " wild child " reared in a remote mountain cabin with so little contact with the outside world that she develops her own language.
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"NELL " ( in theaters ) : Yes, it, too, comes from a play, Mark Handley's " Idioglossia . " ( Wonder why they didn't keep that title . ) But the movie, which was developed by Jodie Foster's production company and has been directed by Michael Apted, is mostly an occasion for Ms . Foster to act her heart out as a feral mountain woman with her own cryptic language ..
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She starred opposite Richard Gere in " Sommersby " ( 1993 ), portraying a woman who begins to suspect that her husband who returns home from the Idioglossia ", which interested Foster for its theme of " otherness ", and because she " loved this idea of a woman who defies categorization, a creature who is labeled and categorized by people based on their own problems and their own prejudices and what they bring to the table . " It was a moderate commercial success, but a critical disappointment.
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:: : : : No . idioglossia is always a product of a confused language environment, where children are exposed to ( at least ) two fully developed languages simultaneously, in such a way that they blend the languages into a patois that only they can decipher . it is not the development of a new independent ( much less natural ) language . the idea of a natural language died a meaningless death along with the concept of a universal grammar; current theory holds that while children certainly have a developmental zone which is optimal for language acquisition, they do not have anything resembling built-in linguistic tendencies, and will functionally adopt any linguistic environment they are exposed to in the proper developmental frame .-- Ludwigs 2 06 : 20, 10 August 2010 ( UTC)
