emperor of India is said to have tried a similar experiment; his children did not speak. [2]  ( http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jan2001/979316388.Sh.r.html ) [3]  ( http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test4materials/ChildLangAcquisition.htm ) From Romulus and Remus forward, there have been a number of accounts of wolf children or feral children raised by wild animals or out of human contact.