Part 1 - Why do we talk? - BBC Horizon
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Uploaded by CooCurrent on Oct 9, 2010
Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of his son's first three years in order to discover how we learn to talk, the autistic savant who can speak more than 20 languages, and the first scientist to identify a gene that makes speech possible.
Horizon also hears from the godfather of linguistics, Noam Chomsky, the first to suggest that our ability to talk is innate. A unique experiment shows how a new alien language can emerge in just one afternoon, in a bid to understand where language comes from and why it is the way it is.
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1 kid 1 camera at a time. Point of watching rest of the static image? Still math fail. Also nothing that any normal father did not know about their kid. Indians allways tend to take something normal and make it look as if was ultracomplex. Still fail
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1 kid 1 camera a
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@chernobila I believe there are several camera's installed around the house! So combined it is possible to have over 24 years of footage. So definitely NO fail! :p
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214000 hours wtf? Thats like over 24 years. Math fail
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One of the best programmes ever produced by BBC. Thank you very much!
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Reading the comments on YouTube videos like this, one would wonder how many of us actually did evolve language skills.
Another mystery for this anthro student...
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"Language just Happened it was Never Planned." a lyric from a Bright Eyes song.
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We don`t talk. We go Ah ah ah. The only words used in the human vocabulary is harder or stop it, your hurting me.
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All Best to You!
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blue ball lol
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rysskryssning 8 months ago 7
This is so compelling thank you for this.
RJL738 1 year ago 4