Deb Roy: The birth of a word

The birth of a word

A brief overview of the work that Deb Roy done with his son, and the conclusions that he managed to draw from this investigation. 

Collecting almost a quarter of a million hours of multi track audio and video, and then allowing the MIT university to analyse the data, finding different patterns into how children learn to talk. 

QUOTE TO REMEMBER

• "caregivers speech would systematically dip to a minimum making language as simple as possible and then slowly ascend back up in complexity."