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Re: [xmca] Deb Roy: The birth of a word



Peter-- So it was you who started this thread!

What is at the top of your list of deep implications? So many, and not just
about
the birth of a word. It may also be the death of us!!
mike

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html
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