Answers video 1

Why do we talk?

1. Which is the trick or process that enables us to communicate something to others?

2. Do animals talk? It they don´t, what do they do to communicate?

3. What do we express when we talk?

4. What did Dr Deb Roy try to achieve in his house?

5. Which are the earlier stages in language for a child?

6. What external and internal factors made the data recollected in the experiment into something they could use?

7. How did the parent's speech change from their son's first word until he could utter more complex structures?

8. What does Dr Deb Roy compare the "blossoming" of a speech form?

 1. First of all language is an ability that only humans have (inherent to humans), that means the "trick" that we have to communicate our thoughts to another human is talking. For us is something very normal but if we think about it, we have an enormous adavantage over other animals, and  that is language or the ability to talk.
2. No, animals are able to communicate but in a different way than talking, maybe by sounds or by fisical contact.
3. We can be able to express our thoughts, our feelings and many other things that are constantly happening in our lifes, that´s why language is so important.

4. Dr Deb Roy maked an experiment in his house with his own family and new baby for having a primary information about how humans start talking. This experiment would help him and other cientists about human communication or language starts.

5. A child would start babling, then he/she would start saying single words, after using two words together and finally forming phrases or sentences.

6. Besides recollecting the sounds, words and sentences of the child, they cientists put atention on what the things that he was saying were in relationship with external facts.

7. They were using more complicated sentences when the child started to use more complex grammar and vocabulary, they advance in their language with the child.

8. He saw the incredible advance of his child of babling to use complex sentences in such a short time, the example he used was with the word "water", the child start saying "gaga", when he practiced the word and learning the sound he could finally say the word correctly.