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Scientist Captures Son’s First 90,000 hou | ||
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 1 of 37 09 March 2011 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Fascinating video about the evolution of a child's language ability.
Scientist Captures Son's First 90,000 hours Can't wait for the TED talk to pop up on the site! NOTE: Anyone know of a similar endeavour to record an adult learner's journey through the acquisition of a foreign language? Edited by Arekkusu on 09 March 2011 at 9:29pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5082 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 2 of 37 09 March 2011 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh.. This scientist is my hero. Very interesting video.
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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 3 of 37 09 March 2011 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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That is amazing and wonderful, I can't wait to see the impact this new data will have on future studies and our
understanding of language acquisition. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6051 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 4 of 37 10 March 2011 at 10:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, this is really fascinating. Also for anyone wanting babies' magic language learning powers, this is evidence at just how much better adults are at learning languages than babies.
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 5 of 37 10 March 2011 at 11:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting. The most interesting thing I found from the linked article was in the
comments section, where one poster referred to the researcher as the "best Dad ever." It does not appear that the comment was meant facetiously. If I were a betting man (and my bookie assures me I am), I would accept even odds that the little fellow in question down the road comes to feel weirded out having been used by the best Dad ever as a guinea pig when younger. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 37 10 March 2011 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | ||
I think the word you were looking for is different. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 7 of 37 10 March 2011 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | ||
Bets are on! The way the videos are shown appears tactful; it's hard to see anything other than presence in the room. I don't know every detail, but it's possible that only a portion of the videos were ever made public. Still, I don't really feel that any recording that could have been made of me as a toddler would constitute a breach of privacy. The recordings were also non intrusive, so the notion that he was a guinea pig is a little exagerated. There are so many parents willingly posting compromising pictures of their kids online (or teenagers posting videos of themselves) that recording a child's linguistic evolution is tame in comparison. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 8 of 37 10 March 2011 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree with your comments Arekkusu in the preceding post - the guinea pig comment was
intentionally a bit over-top. Agreed that this guy was not poking his son with electrodes or anything, and I don't think the posting of portions of the videos is the problem. But I'll take the bet! I'm seeing a sort of the following down the road: "Dad, you love me for being me, right?" "Yes son, mostly for that, but perhaps 13% for your contribution in your early years as lab rat". 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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