MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with video cameras 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.
How we learn language is important – because children growing up in poverty, by the THIRD grade, have heard 30 million fewer words then kids that LUCKED OUT!
(Another TED talk)
