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The birth of a word - Deb Roy

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." This astonishing, data-rich research has deep implications for how we learn.

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  • Originally Aired December 1, 2012
  • Runtime 10 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
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Name Type Role
Deb Roy Host