- Talking is a unique ability that defines us as humans
- We are the only ones on the planet that can talk
- Expressing thought processes
- Children learn to speak with minimal effort
- Despite decades of research, how we learn to talk is a mystery
- Is it something we are born with or what we learn
- Dr Deb Roy turned his home into a laboratory and captured his sons language from the day he was born until the age of three
- The parent simplifies language to match the child's language but when the child develops, the parents language becomes more complex
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with video cameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." This astonishing, data-rich research has deep implications for how we learn.
- Dr Cathy Price work and research is highlighting that there are key parts of the brain linked with language
- Speech therapy- working with people, who had strokes
- The innate ability for language- we are born, able to pick up language- born with the ability to speak
- Noam Chomsky- language is innate and we all have L.A.D (Language acquisition device0
- We have the blueprint for language but need to be exposed to it early on
- Fx P2 part of DNA- supports Chomsky's theory that language is innate
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