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The birth of a word

Deb Roy · TED

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About

MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras 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." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2011
Speaker
Deb Roy
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain, Languages and linguistics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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