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Through a series of fish-eye lenses, advanced transcription software, and lots (and lots) of video footage, MIT cognitive scientist Deb Roy took his lab and placed it at home to capture everything that his son did. That’s around 90,000 hours worth of footage allowing him to catalogue everything from how his son learned new words to his first historical step. (We’re talking about intense home videos here.)
The implications of his research is staggering: it seems that the children do learn language at moments that we’re not even aware of. Those seemingly random utterances, well, are not really random. What’s also fascinating here is that the technology we have today is at a level where we could obtain such intricate data.
For more details, scoot on over to his TED Talk where he shared more details about his work.
// Link to Deb Roy’s TED Talk, The birth of a word.
