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Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child阅读理解答案 　　Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the experiment of Frederick in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent. 　　All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was mothering. W