Why do we talk?
"The average person will speak approximately 370 million words in his or her lifetime - a simple fact. And yet the underlying structures - sociological, anatomical, developmental, intellectual - have proved to be some of science's most impenetrable mysteries. This program spotlights researchers who are unlocking the deepest secrets of speech: Deb Roy and the human Speechome Project; Tecumseh Fitch and his study of vocal tract positioning in animals; Cathy Price, who is piecing together a speech-related map of the brain; William Fifer and his study of the roots of language reception in babies; Ofer Tchernichovski, who is conducting the Forbidden Experiment with zebra finches; Faraneh Vargha-Khadem and the isolation of speech gene FOXP2; and Simon Kirby, whose Alien Language Experiment illustrates the evolution of language from random to structured."--Container
DVD Video, English, [2010]
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Hamilton, N.J., [2010]