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caeli · 3469 days ago · link · · parent · post: If you had unlimited resources, and ethics is thrown out the window, what social science experiment would you want to conduct?
I would clear 1,000 islands of all inhabitants and stick large populations of babies on them with caretakers who don't speak to them and see what kinds of languages they develop. This would be helpful in figuring out how language originated, and might provide interesting insights w.r.t so-called linguistic universals.