"Wild Child"

Do you think Victor's case supports Critical Period Hypothesis?

While Victor did learn how to say the word for "milk" in French, I do believe that his case strongly supports the Critical Period Hypothesis.  Without any human contact during the critical period in his life, he was not able to learn the sounds and utterances needed to form words, thus not allowing him to be able to speak as a child brought up in society would.  Throughout much of the film, we were able to see that Victor, although he could recognize the sound of his own name, could not produce any of the sounds that Dr. Jean Itard tried to teach him.  In one specific scene, when Dr. Itard uses the candle to show how the candle flickers differently with each sound, Victor is able to do the same, but does not produce sound.  He instead just blows the air through his mouth, which causes the candle to flicker.