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Who among the following Mughal rulers carried out an experiment for newborn babies to be raised in…

The reported language-deprivation experiment is associated with Akbar, who investigated whether children raised without hearing speech would develop language. The other…

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Who among the following Mughal rulers carried out an experiment for newborn babies to be raised in silence,
only to find that the children produced no speech at all?

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The reported language-deprivation experiment is associated with Akbar, who investigated whether children raised without hearing speech would develop language. The other named rulers are not the conventional attribution.

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