Contriving

Dude records practically every waking moment of his first child's life. Then he maps the data so you can see where and when his son first heard a word and how it was used and when his son first said it and when his son gained mastery. Amazing stuff.

http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html

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MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90,…