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Articles of Faith

If you have the chance, listen to a toddler use the words “a” and “the” before a noun. Can you detect a pattern? Is he or she using those two words correctly?

And one more question: When kids start using language, how much of their know-how is intrinsic, and how much is acquired by listening to others speak?

Now a study co-authored by an MITprofessor uses a new approach to shed more light on this…

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The birth of a word

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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De geboorte van een woord

De geboorte van een woord

MIT-onderzoeker Deb Roy wilde begrijpen hoe zijn zoontje taal leerde – dus hij hing zijn huis vol met videocamera’s die op (bijna, er zijn wat uitzonderingen) elk moment in het leven van zijn zoon te vastlegde. Daarna was er 90.000 uur aan beelden te bekijken en zag Deb “gaaaaa” langzaam veranderen in “water.” Een data-rijk onderzoek met diepe implicaties over de manier waarop wij leren.

MIT…

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Travel into your past

Travel into your past

One of the results of my obsession for time is the utter shock and, at times, the despair that I have little to no recollection of the detailed actions, thoughts, and feelings which have comprised up of my life. The brain is a processing powerhouse and is extremely good at retiring memories which it deems irrelevant to survival.

Over the last 10 or so years I have kept scrapbook of sorts, which…

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The Birth of a Word: 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.

If you dont wanna watch the whole video at least go to 4:14 to listen to his son go from "gaaaa" to "water". Please.

[neddoested]

January 15

The Video:

http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html?embed=true

My Thoughts: Deb Roy is one smart dude, although he makes interesting choices in fatherhood. His talk takes his audience through how his son developed speech by videorecording every room in his house. I got so caught up in the creepiness of it all that I think I missed the profound parts. There were definitely lots of pictures, but what I took away was that there are networks and people talk to each other. Yeah, I probably missed something...

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the birth of a word

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INSPIRATION - THE BIRTH OF A WORD Finally we have the technology to do great things as knowing ourselves better. Now we have the computer so manage an incredible buch of data and mix it to obtain results.

Deb Roy recorded everything that happend in his house when his son was born during one year. Like this he found the answer to where we learn words, with who we learn, when we learn, what we learn first, and many other questions according to learning and human behavior. Amazing job sir!