Deb Roy: The birth of a word
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http://www.ted.com 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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lol they already ended. We're on a quarter system over here.
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I'm doing an English degree through the OU, but want a broader understanding of how we learn language (I also teach). Good luck with your Psycology classes.
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yup
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yupp here
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Anyone happening to be watching this as part of a Psychology class in UCR?
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Didn't they record the house for 3 years?
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what the hell are you on about!?
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haha yea :-P
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it looked like everyone was having a seizure...
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Birth of a concept... Wish we could do this with the nword so bad.
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Someone should call a doctor... I believe he's having a seizure...
myassishappy 1 year ago 91
OH. my god. this is beautiful.
See the difference here? I wouldn't let the government touch this data, but scientists, that's prefectly cool.
greengrendel 1 year ago 35