Linguistic Deprivation Experiments That Really Happened

File this one under further examples of why the Milkweed Triptych isn't nearly as fictional as I thought it was.  (Nor is it, apparently, as fictional as we might prefer.)  First it was a sequence of strange parallels between the imaginary work of Dr. von Westarp to create his battery-powered Übermenschen and real-world tDCS research.  Now it's weird linguistic-deprivation experiments of the Middle Ages.