Part 3 - Why do we talk? - BBC Horizon

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.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Speech
• Language
• Linguistics
• Age
• English
• Development
• Communication

[SongsofInnocence]

The technical term for Steve's condition is conduction aphasia. Following his stroke damage was caused to the connection between parts of his brain responsible for speech production (Broca's area) and speech comprehension (Wernicke's area). He can produce words but has difficulty in retrieving words and describing things.

[Ificationer]

SRBIJA !!!

[humpfrog]

This is more about how we speak, rather than why we speak.

[RJL738]

It's usually a complicated process finding out how people learn in the begining of life but science has to go there many times wich often times is the most reasonable palce to go.