The birth of a word - Deb Roy
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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.
When Roy analyzed the conversations between his son and the adults in his home, he discovered “amazing feedback loops.” Describe in more detail what pattern(s) emerged and their potential significance to language researchers.
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