Part 6 - 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

[znOopy1231]

@LoRdOFHearT09 tienes ya tu traduccion?? me podrias ayudar por favor!! lo necesito para un proyecto en la universidad gracias

[znOopy1231]

alguie me podria ayudar con la traduccion!!! estoy trabajando en un proyecto de lenguaje pero se me dificulta la traduccion por favor ayuda!!

[LoRdOFHearT09]

I couldn't understand what does the volunteer say. could you help me in this please ? it's during 2:54 - 3:07.

[yourtreat2]

Sorry to disagree, but language does NOT uniquely define humans. Parrots can speak AND convey the meaning of a spoken word to associate it with an object. While apes do not have the ability to speak they CAN convey words in a structured sequence or hear words in a structured sequence, and demonstrate they know what that sequence means.

While the Vid does give a good idea of parts of the human brain used, it does fail to show the results of important genetic experiments done with FOXP2.

[Tifferoony77]

The last experiment was really interesting. Although, it seemed a little false because the difficulty in learning a language depends on how much you've been exposed to different languages in your youth, so the results are obviously going to vary depending on the individual. And the girl at the beginning and the last guy don't seem to have the same intelectual level anyways (without trying to be rude). But still a very clever idea.

[Zachdudeio2]

The last experiment was brilliantly thought up

[RJL738]

I don't agree with everything they say but that was very telling.

[blazereef]

logic has to be a major need to have complex language

[oeddawg]

And not just errors! That we as humans just naturally start to organize things for convenience makes so much sense, even though language seems inconstructible to us now.

[ryandenki]

This is an absolutely fascinating experiment into how we interact with language. It's amazing to see how small errors over time end up evolving into a natural, structured pattern.