Why Do We Talk? The Science of Speech

The average person will speak approximately 370 million words in his or her lifetime-a simple fact. And yet the underlying structures-sociological, anatomical, developmental, intellectual-have proved to be some of science's most impenetrable mysteries. This program spotlights researchers who ar...

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Other Authors: BBC Worldwide Ltd., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c2009.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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505 0 |a Language: An Amazing Ability (1:00) -- How Do People Learn (2:00) -- Home Language Laboratory (1:27) -- Observation of Early Stages of Language (1:50) -- Speechome Project Data (1:29) -- How a New Word is Born (1:37) -- Exclusivity of Human Language (1:16) -- Can Chimpanzees Learn to Speak? (1:56) -- Why Can't Chimpanzees Talk? (2:18) -- Complexity of Language (2:26) -- Analyzing a Brain Scan (1:54) -- Language Function Test (2:12) -- Language Brain Puzzle (2:04) -- How do Babies Respond to Language? (1:24) -- Language in Utero (2:08) -- Godfather of Linguistics (2:15) -- The Forbidden Experiment (2:23) -- Language Experiments on Animals (1:21) -- Zebra Finch Vocalization Experiment (1:53) -- Results of the Zebra Finch Experiment (1:40) -- Discovery of Speech1 (1:07) -- Studying the K E Family (2:10) -- Discovery of FOXP2 (1:43) -- Making Noise Vs Producing Speech. (1:02) -- When Did Humans Start to Speak? (1:00) -- Language Evolution Study (4:38) -- Multiple Components of Language (1:46) 
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520 |a The average person will speak approximately 370 million words in his or her lifetime-a simple fact. And yet the underlying structures-sociological, anatomical, developmental, intellectual-have proved to be some of science's most impenetrable mysteries. This program spotlights researchers who are unlocking the deepest secrets of speech: Deb Roy and the Human Speechome Project; Tecumseh Fitch and his study of vocal tract positioning in animals; Cathy Price, who is piecing together a speech-related map of the brain; William Fifer and his study of the roots of language reception in babies; Ofer Tchernichovski, who is conducting The Forbidden Experiment with zebra finches; Faraneh Vargha-Khadem and the isolation of speech gene FOXP2; and Simon Kirby, whose Alien Language Experiment illustrates the evolution of language from random to structured. Special guest: Noam Chomsky. 
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